Word: simpleton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barn with him outside Knoxville for eight years, bathing outdoors, eating beans, her husband rejecting $2,000 offers to speak at universities because everything he had to say was available in those books that no one was buying. The repellent could have been subject matter, but then only a simpleton would think that Outer Dark (1968) was just about incest or Child of God (1974) just about necrophilia. More likely, the villain was the complexity of language and thought that refused to meet the reader halfway...
Fortunately, or unfortunately, Yanni's tenth album reveals him to be a musical simpleton. This album is full or romantic music, but it really lacks passion. Yanni writes music that is just like his personality--striving for beauty and deepness, and producing schmaltz. His own words best describe this philosophy: "My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life's experiences and translate them into music--music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener." The incredible thing is that Yanni appears to be totally sincere...
...nobody wants to miss out on the dish du jour. Cocktail parties are peppered with objections to the plot: Why does Andy Beckett (the Hanks character) get no more than a chaste kiss from his lover (Antonio Banderas)? Why is his case rejected by 10 lawyers, when even a simpleton knows that the ACLU, the LAMBDA defense fund and many other groups would jump at the chance of a precedent-setting suit? Why is Andy's huge family so conspicuously loving, so unanimously supportive? Why do the good guys have to be so pristine and the bad guys -- senior...
...long ago, a University of Tours sociologist named Jean-Pierre Sergent argued that Americans would not go to war in the Persian Gulf because they cannot face reality, only simulated versions of it. Now, after the battle, a writer named Jean d'Ormesson allows that Bush, an apparent "simpleton . . . has revealed himself, to almost universal surprise, to be a steadfast head of state . . . He has restored America to the first rank of nations...
...Critical in the sense that they make him out to be a simpleton...