Word: schoolgirlisms
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...sounds like the plot of a made-for-TV movie: an inquisitive nine-year-old Colorado schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair experiment that ends up debunking a flaky but widely practiced medical treatment. And she does such a professional job of it that the study gets published in a prestigious medical journal, landing her on just about every front page and news broadcast in the nation--where, naturally, she comes off as poised and confident...
...some about-to-be-arrested principal, the photos are captioned with musings on adolescent sexuality from literary folk like Spenser ("Her nipples like young blossomed jessamine"), Dryden ("Young am I and yet unskilled") and, most appallingly, Anne Frank ("Am I only 14? Am I really still a silly little schoolgirl?"). One photo of a pert but defiant-looking young thing is labeled with an uncredited "Ne touchez pas." Another reads, "Not unless--or until--I say so!" Could you possibly not be wincing? I found myself both amused and repelled by The Age of Innocence--it's as campy...
...strangled cries of some costumed chanters. Innocent and esoteric by turn, the first Olympic opening ceremonies to have their very own 15th century landscape poster introduced the world to what might be seen as Japan's latest brand of high-tech traditionalism: a sumo wrestler and a schoolgirl walking hand in hand...
...long died out. Dylan's voice is still a nasal whine, but his lyrical efforts can no longer redeem it. Youthful abandon continues to stretch boundaries, but any spirit of adventure has been replaced by sad desperation. Halfway through Dylan's unintentionally elegaic performance, my schoolgirl friends stopped drinking, smoking and fondling each other. They sat slumped in their chairs, staring blankly into the vacuous arena. Suddenly, one girl vomited onto the middle-aged couple in front of her. As the couple leapt up in horror, the girls took their ill companion and stumbled out the nearest exit...
...aesthetic conception of this production is intriguing. The "town" of Titipu has been transformed into "Titipu, Inc."--a software mega-corporation--and the noblemen of the town become identically-suited business executives who try to juggle their brief-cases, beepers and cellular phones to amusing effect. The "schoolgirl" chorus which accompanies our recently-graduated heroines has been transformed, through a stroke of sheer genius, into a hyper-modernized version of the Japanese schoolgirl: the archetype found ubiquitously in the cartoons (anime) which permeate Japanese popular culture. Decked out in characteristic anime schoolgirl uniforms--white blouses, hot pink neckties, suggestively tiny...