Word: naif
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...prolonged war effort is, not surprisingly, giving Saudi Arabia's rulers the jitters. Arab News reported this week that interior minister Prince Naif said his government did not support U.S. strikes on Afghanistan. "No, the Kingdom is not backing (the strikes) in the real sense of the word," he was quoted as saying. "The Kingdom only has a position on the anti-terror campaign," he addes, without elaborating. But despite his fudge on the bombing question, the Saudi launched into a fierce attack on Osama Bin Laden. "This is not jihad and there is nothing to be proud of. This...
...superhero is decades outdated. Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, this is exactly the kind of highly ironic, hero-puncturing entertainment that is supposedly a no-no now. Except that it's also creative, appealing and spray-milk-out-your-nose funny. The Tick is a blustery, lovable naif, a rippled blue mountain of earnestness so innocent he has to have the concept of death explained to him. ("You make it sound like it could happen to anybody!" he protests.) Abetted by two motorized antennas more expressive than some actors' faces, Warburton is the first Seinfeld actor to find...
...fibrosis has left him only 40% use of his lungs, and his doctors told him a year ago that he had just months to live. But with the inexorable will that has made him an empire builder, he pumps his latest project, a swashbuckling novel featuring a miracle-working naif who brings God's word from Ethiopia to California. Bill Bright is a late convert into the exploding field of religious potboilers, but an enthusiastic one. "I've written many books about the Holy Spirit," he says cheerfully, "And this will probably be read by many times more people...
...jurors of the 1997 Venice Film Festival thought Fireworks was art; they gave it the top prize. The movie has "art" of a sort: Kitano's own paintings, executed in a faux-naif (or maybe really naive) style, are seen throughout the movie. Fireworks also flirts with humanism. He's Nishi, a cop, and his wife has terminal cancer. (Women in Kitano films, when they appear at all, exist mainly as objects or metaphors: the hooker, the angel, the noble victim.) Nishi becomes a caregiver with a vengeance: he steals money to support his wife...
...people are becoming our new celebrities. Following Multi-Millionaire's Darva Conger and Rick Rockwell, there's now Stacey Stillman, 27, Survivor's cranky attorney ("I never realized how annoyed I looked," she says. "I was hungry"). There's Julie (last name withheld for security reasons), 20, the Mormon naif in the just-premiered ninth season of MTV's The Real World, in which this year's crew of twentysomethings find romance and hurt feelings while sharing a New Orleans mansion. There's Joyce Bowler, 44, who persuaded her family to spend three hardship-filled months in a house outfitted...