Word: nosed
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...admit that the very idea of the infallible superhero is decades outdated.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...
...avoid emotional limbo. It’s almost as if we have stepped onto the screen of a cinematic romance: Either we’re passionate Camilles doomed to tragedy, or we’re chipper Meg Ryans, ready to win the hero with a scrunch of our nose. And to a certain extent, that’s great. That’s what the movies are for—escapism and entertainment. In the case of romantic comedies, where the outcome is pre-determined by the marquee (Did you really think that Bill Pullman was going to triumph over...
...they cannot see any way forward for their country. "I cannot say it will be peaceful again in my lifetime?only God knows," says Ahmed Shah, who left his village of Bachkot in Nangarhar a year ago. The despondency is widespread. Farras has a constant cough, a runny nose and an open sore on his cheek. His mother puts kohl around his eyes to ward off bad spirits?they cannot afford medicine. Neither Farras nor any of his 10 brothers have gone to school?there is no school in their village and, like their father, they will likely be illiterate...
...jacket of each of the books I bought. Add the fact that he looked exactly like John Malkovitch, and it could’ve been a scene right out of the Twilight Zone. What is ‘off’ is not conventional strangeness of the mohawk-and-nose-ring variety, but a subtle, subliminal sense of unease. Where words like ‘kooky,’ ‘wacko’ and ‘lunatic’ are essential parts of a New York vocabulary, it’s much harder to define the elusive...
Perhaps the most interesting award-winner last night was Chittaranjan Andrade from Bangalore, India, who recieved the Ig Nobel prize for public health for his research in “Rhinotillexomania”—the disease of habitually picking one’s nose...