Word: childishness
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...Childish handwriting in black marker on a sheet of pink copy paper proclaims: "Gnomon Copy is the best + number ONE." Smiley faces adorn all the o's, and a large heart is drawn in the margin...
...real Star Wars revolution was not technical. It was emotional. The executives who turned down Lucas extravagant ideas were right: Star Wars is a kids movie. This is not supposed to be an insult. It is not childish or poorly made, terms which could easily be leveled at hundreds of adults' movies. In fact, it's rather mature given its subject matter, and the craftsmanship is impeccable. But the elements of the story itself--a princess in distress, evil villains bent on galactic domination, space bandits and virtuous knights--these are the elements of legends and fairy tales. They...
...have served KMFDM well in the past, but not here. At times, even, the band stops grating, and their sound reminds one that Depeche Mode remains un-killed. KMFDM's lyrics, usually carried hard-core, have nothing to stand on during these sags, so that their controversial, if not childish tone can't be ignored. Towards the album's close, at least, the beat comes back, and the german band closes with "BEREIT", a tired cry to mother earth that smacks of Yeats and Heym...
...permitting citizens to non-violently protest against our laws, our army, our elected leader. Our country is founded on the premise summarized by Voltaire as "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Burning the flag is a childish but far from unconscionable way to protest governmental action. Thus, I find the proposed amendment disturbingly reminiscent of the criminalization of any physical desecration of Stalin's portrait, intentional or unintentional, in the now-defunct Soviet Union...
...concrete burn on a Sunday afternoon. Reading the entire 55-page poem through is akin to sitting through a ten hour film, and Girls on the Run features an additional hypnotism in the person of its girls. Shuffles shuffles, Judy suggests and Tidbit agrees: plunky spunkiness speaks through childish seriousness as planes fly overhead and the storm breaks. We should congratulate Ashbery for such luxuriousness--Girls on the Run is heroically aesthetic. Perhaps tragic, perhaps symbolic, Ashbery's poem benefits from the sheer two-dimensionality that a surrealist text always lends to its texts, delighting the reader at the most...