Word: cornyness
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Shojo comics have little in common with the corny romance titles of yesteryear. These books are for an audience like the characters they depict, independent-minded girls for whom romance becomes another complication in a busy life.
PREGNANT MALES Jokes about who wears the pants in the family are a corny stand-up staple. Tell that to the sea horse. It is the male who becomes pregnant, blows up like a balloon and delivers the young. The male Darwin frog swallows fertilized eggs and broods the young...
NOV. 28: Having arrived in Baghdad only three days ago, Orion Jenks has missed all that bonding. Now he is preparing for his maiden trip outside the wire. Yesterday Jenks spent Thanksgiving away from home for the first time, eating rubbery turkey with a bunch of strangers in a chow...
When University President Lawrence H. Summers was installed in Tercentenary Theater in October 2001, a choir of Harvard undergraduates sang “America the Beautiful.“ And, as nauseatingly corny as it sounds—and as nauseatingly corny as it was—I cried. (At...
But even when the dance was absent from the stage, the production’s energy never flagged; I have never seen a stage with so many smiling faces, and this helped to make this somewhat hokey musical ring true. Chief among the grinners was Olivia A. Jennings â?...