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...like that, Molly Ringwald is cast to the background in the mental picture, lingering to strike an evocative contrast to the song’s underpinnings. This is The Pains of Being Pure At Heart at their best, when they avoid the “aw shucks?? puns that they can otherwise be drawn to, crafting excited, conflicted hymn-ditties for the “Pete and Pete” set.At times, they miss their mark, as not all listeners can share their tolerance for sticky-sweet synthesizer, ironic xylophone, and the aforementioned puns and clich?...
...Republican is incumbent Senator Conrad Burns, a man with the quintessential “aw, shucks?? persona. Amidst volunteers who have come to Montana for the final 72 hours of this closely watched campaign, Burns holds an unfathomably large potato above his head and discusses the relative advantage that Montana nematodes—whatever they are—hold over Idaho’s, and how the bountiful seed potatoes they make often go unrecognized. Making the rounds, he jokes that a recent Smith College graduate looks pregnant. (In fairness, she has something lodged in the front pocket...
These stars embrace their girl or boy-next-door image and successfully market such “aw shucks?? qualities to tweens and tween parents alike. They know to tread lightly on the teen waters, with each media move strategically planned by a legion of media managers—sponsor a milk or Pepsi ad, yes; appear in a racy, possibly cleavage-exposing Guess Jeans spread, no. Over the course of a year these tweens save whales, design clothing lines, tour for their albums, promote new movies, pose for magazine covers and appear at see-and-be-seen...
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