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...Always be My Baby" is exactly what you'll be expecting after a few minutes of listening, as Rainbow sounds a lot like Butterfly, her previous album. To the album's credit, Jay-Z, Usher, Snoop and Missy Elliott are featured, although Jay-Z seems to be wanting nave Annie-esque samples for counterpoint--not that Mariah sounds particularly world-weary when she sings about her "Heartbreaker" boyfriend. And Rainbow is so mainstream, so generic, that Snoop and Missy Elliott sound like animals in a porcelain party. Your Tupperware and slumber party crowd will do far better to rent...
...first part, is that the play is from the little boy's point of view. We hear his thoughts over a loudspeaker. And we know just as little about what's going on as he does. The danger is that the audience might forever be lost in his nave, childlike world and only realize that he is sad because his parents left him--missing the larger point...
...know what I'm doing." Halder's wife urges him to join the party for the practical purpose of obtaining a more prestigious university position. He does not have to embrace their ideas, after all, but simply wear their uniform. He rationalizes his decision to join with the nave illusion that he can push the Nazis up "to humanity." But what if the Nazis instead push him down to their lower level...
...Still unknown is how the burglars entered the Thayer and Mathews dormitories in the first place. But had there been universal key-card access, it is possible the thief would have never been swiped into a dormitory building, and granted entrance into the rooms of the unsuspecting, and somewhat nave, first-years...
...subject of Purdy's sincerity is precisely the pervasive cult of irony whose brand Hodge wears, to whom "Believing in nothing much, especially not in people, is a point of vague pride, and conviction can seem embarrassingly nave." In response to the culture of irony that mocks because it does not have the faith to believe or love, Purdy resolves to "speak earnestly of uncertain hopes." The fragility of hope in the ironic world, he asserts, is not a reason to give up on hoping: "I have written this bookso that I will not forget what I hope...