Word: pert
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...little, um, improvement. If Soneji is living proof that "a mind is a terrible thing," then Potter is living proof that a pretty face with nothing to back it up is a wonderful thing that can get you a starring role across Freeman in a major Hollywood film. Her pert, perpetually undisturbed blondness gets painfully monotonous about three scenes after she first enters...
...that Shopgirl (Hyperion; 130 pages; $17.95) isn't also funny. It's full of metaphors that raise wry smiles (a goodbye kiss "so formal it might as well have been wearing a tuxedo") and lots of pert social commentary, especially about a Los Angeles subspecies of sexual predators "whose highest accomplishments are that they were cute in high school." But the author is serious about his glove lady, Mirabelle Buttersfield, and about Ray Porter, the fiftysomething man Mirabelle admits into her solitary life. Once Martin fashioned funny-weird balloon animals; now, at 55, he creates funny-sad, nice...
Berry-blue eyed with a pert blond pony tail, Butler discusses the challenge of publicizing a group that is not recognized by the College...
...speak and act with much the same voice, and as a result blur into one non-distinct personality. The only truly distinct personas are, in fact, the international students, by virtue of the fact that Medwed blatantly exploits them through their ethnic stereotypes. There's an Italian lover, a pert, fashionable Francaise and a few Asian guys who speak broken English, wear black leather jackets and play video games. Perhaps the most insulting portrayal, though, is that of the Lewises' first student, an Indonesian named Pilombaya who is illustrated as entirely ignorant and is compared repeatedly to a whiny child...