Word: pleasingness
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I am sure there are women in my dining hall who have serious eating concerns. I worry that someday, when one of them is eating a salad or some yogurt, a paradoxically ignorant tutor will approach and compliment them on their apparently pleasing slimness. And one of them might think...
All we can do, and maybe all Straightlines asks us to do, is begin appreciating good visual images for being good visual images, ones in which all the variables of lighting, set, music, dance and voice, work together to shape an aesthetically pleasing whole.
TREMORS. Kevin Bacon fights off an attack of 30-ft.-long earthworms in this crowd-pleasing sci-fi flick. Shrewdly written, energetically directed and played with high comic conviction, Tremors is bound to become a cult classic.
THE INNOCENCE MISSION: THE INNOCENCE MISSION (A&M). Pleasing, slightly spacey sounds that are tinged with '60s folk rock and psychedelia, then spruced up with shades of Joni Mitchell ("I showed him my notebook/ The underside of my soul") and a little jolt of feminism. Overwrought -- but promising.
This frame of mind hampered my exam performance. As I struggled to remember the inner working of the mammalian kidney, my mind rattled off 12 different ways to make the layout of the exam more visually pleasing. "Times font would have been most appropriate for this question," I thought to...