Word: quaintness
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...spare time allowed by the long scenicmoments invites contemplation of Antz'smain point (which is, of course, the animation).Making an entire movie by computer isn't really agood in itself. Who wants to see the quaint art ofdrawing animation cells taken over byultra-sensitive mice...
...They also altered the male chest of Lord Krishna to that of a female with breasts, wearing a woman's blouse." Media executives did not incorporate Hindu symbols out of love for the culture, or with a desire to educate; they simply were looking for something quaint and exotic to market better their product, with little regard for the sentiments of the people whose icons they were perverting. After receiving thousands of protest messages, the Sony higher-ups wisely decided to change the cover art in subsequent releases of the record...
...delightfully quaint piece of propaganda? There's no official word yet from U.S. intelligence. Perhaps North Korea is backtracking on its earlier belligerence out of fear that food aid will be withdrawn -- or KCNA is getting a little carried away in advance of Kim's inauguration Saturday. Still, it beats fireworks...
Part of the gloom will pass once this crew leaves office, and a few years of normalcy could make much of this fretting seem quaint. But that assumes some restoration of restraint: at least a partial dismantling of the political-prosecutorial-press complex that invites journalists to make their careers by bringing down an official, talk shows to boost their ratings by analyzing events that haven't happened yet, political partisans to eviscerate the opposition rather than engage it, and prosecutors to seek more money and more power in pursuit of ever smaller transgressions. For that to happen, the American...
...computer language to move fluently through the Net's electronic sprawl. Analog phones and plain-film cameras will be about as worthwhile tomorrow as Betamax movies are in our VHS world today. To be sure, you'll still pay extra to go digital: ordinary Canon cameras, with their quaint loadable film, run from $200 bargains on up the price scale, while the digital Canon Sureshot costs $699 at New York City's 47th Street Photo. This gap is even wider for videocameras: $599 to $799 for Canon's GS series, vs. a sweat-inducing $2,300 for the Optura digital...