Word: earnestly
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...many U.S. record buyers may still resist the Chicks. Americans over the past 35 years have remained attached to the idea of rock as an earnest, romantic mode of expression, never fully embracing the proudly incompetent Sex Pistols or the proudly impersonal technowizards like the Orb and Aphex Twin, all beloved by Europeans. What could most rankle American rock audiences is the Chicks' rejection of the notions that 1) good rock music is either soulful, finely wrought craftsmanship (Radiohead) or cathartic guitar bombast (Nirvana) and 2) letting producers help compose your songs is only for teenyboppers like Britney Spears. "Bands...
...Claymation-com is at least better than its premise. (Dweeb and slacker go on road trip; hilarity, rabbit squashing ensue.) The gross-out humor misses more than it hits, but the show can surprise you, as when the dim duo visit Washington and ruins the life-work of an earnest Senator, turning a pat setup on its head: the pol is betrayed by the people. It's worth seeing where this ride goes...
Carroll's book, however, is not just a polemic; his literary gifts enable him to produce a coherent narrative studded with arresting cameos and acute analysis. His plot, highly simplified, runs as follows: Jesus' first mourners, who considered themselves Jewish, engaged in earnest critiques of their faith; but the authors of the Gospels, by then feuding with the Jews, calcified those critiques as slanders. Constantine's use of Christianity to unify his far-flung empire effectively declared open season on all nonbelievers. Church fathers (by now influential Romans themselves) assigned the villain's role in the Crucifixion to the Jews...
...proposals are not incongruous with what has come before. But it would be a shame if Catholics and other Christians let skepticism about Carroll's earnest yet implausible cures deprive them of his masterly history of one of the West's epic plagues...
...getting closer. When called to action, the toy sings (up to 40 songs) and begs for its ear-of-corn toy, which it "eats" with jabbing movements and excited warbles. Though a successor to Furby and Poo-Chi, this plastic, squawking, nonspecific bird doesn't exhibit the same annoyingly earnest cuteness. Even more important: Chirpy-Chi goes to sleep in a hurry and doesn't wake up at every little sound...