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...play movie producer. Which of these film treatments would get your green light? naiveté. Born poor and with a bad attitude, his first act is to stick his tongue out at the world, and the price he pays is shocking: his nose grows with every lie, his feet are burned off, he is chained like a dog and even hanged. But the boy sure can dish it out: when a moralizing cricket gets in his face, boy squashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale Of Two Pinocchios | 10/13/2002 | See Source »

...reaction revealed a trait Europeans have long considered a quintessentially American attribute: political naiveté. It seems pretty obvious now that a Texas oilman with a proven aversion to antipollution regulation and a firm grounding in the don't-tread-on-me ideology of Western Republicans would reject a complicated agreement like the one forged in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. A few weeks ago, Bush clearly indicated his opposition to the central tenet of that agreement -curbing global warming by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide -in a letter to several Republican Senators. In it, he abandoned a campaign pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Air over Kyoto | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...history: days when entire historical streams collide and coalesce into a single pinpoint of collapse. Nov. 9, 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall-the entire Soviet era and the Cold War, crumbling in a hail of concrete. Feb. 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died-the innocence and naivet of early rock 'n roll and the '50s burning up and crashing to earth. These are moments of myth when intangible and supernatural forces reduce to a microcosm, a specific time and place where zeitgeists materialize for an instant before shattering...

Author: By Jon Natchez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sympathy for the Devil: 'Gimme Shelter' Reveals the Bad Vibes of the Sixties | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

Overall, though, Rapp presents us with a sympathetic and memorable character. This is Rapp's first major production, and moments of naivet and self-consciousness in the work show it. Fortunately his pinpoint accuracy with language makes it an aural delight. Expect much more, and much better, from Adam Rapp in the future...

Author: By Richard C. Worf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Night Falls Fast | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...Addison show clearly chronicles Neel's evolution from a recent art-school grad (she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women), dealing with her rejection of academic training, to a confident, comfortable portraitist. Her earlier work is somewhat primitive in its calculated naivet. The tones are earthy and dark, and the way she renders her sitters varies. Some portraits give an impression of purposeful awkwardness, while others are just somehow off. Walking through the show, the figures become more colorful-blacks become blues, browns, yellows; purples appear-and the backgrounds behind them become simpler. The show does not skip...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

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