Word: monsterous
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...TRIVIALIZE PARENTS' CONCERNS about their children's education by referring to them as "mama grizzly bears" and "monster parents" reveals a bias against parental involvement in schools. Educators need to understand that the days of viewing the teacher as "the expert in education" are over. If a parent's advocacy of a student or school program looks like adversity to a teacher, perhaps it is because the teacher is squirming under the just weight of accountability...
...just don't have the charm of the anthropomorphized tin men from science-fiction past. To borrow a line from A Mighty Wind, they're so retro, they're now-tro. Will Smith proved that last year with I, Robot. Now the CGI cartoonmakers, having run through their bug, monster, fish and human evolutionary phases, are into talking gadgets. Pixar has Cars next summer. And the Blue Sky team, which enjoyed a hit with Ice Age, is offering the busy, fizzy Robots...
Although I was aware of this intentional lopsidedness on the part of directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the same directorial team behind the sensationalist Party Monster and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, I couldn’t help but be swayed. By the end of the documentary, I found myself ruing the death of avant-garde art at the hands of mass-production and censorship, even as I still struggled with the classification of Lovelace, Reems, and Damiano as “artists” of the first rank. Inside Deep Throat, with its attempt to portray the American...
...pauses to push his loose hair back from his rectangular black glasses. “I think of it as sort of like an invisible monster that haunts me at night,” he continues. “It, like, whispers really crazy things in my ear. And gives me hugs when I need them. You know, like a big furry beast...
...Written a decade ago, the book was at first banned over concerns that the Republican side in the Chinese civil war gets off too gently, but later became a best seller. The original has been trimmed considerably by the respected American translator Howard Goldblatt, though it's still a monster, with scores of characters and more action than an Indiana Jones movie. "You can skip my other novels, but you must read Big Breasts and Wide Hips," Goldblatt quotes the author as saying. "In it I wrote about history, war, politics, hunger, religion, love and sex." Ah, sex. Goldblatt...