Word: naivetã
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SARAH SILVERMAN JESUS IS MAGIC Dark, svelte and sexy, she strides onstage and, with a Valley Girl's perky naivet??, utters one social faux pas after another. "The best time to have a baby," she says, "is when you're a black teenager." Then she makes some apologetic qualifier that gets her pretty mouth into even bigger trouble. Of course, this Sarah Silverman is a stage persona, a one-shtick pony that could grate if not for her zazz and nervy aplomb. "I don't care if you think I'm racist," her alter egotist says defiantly. "I just want...
What results is a mockery of American insensitivity, sweetly embodied by Sondra’s spunky candor and naivet??©. Naturally, though, Allen’s exploration of this transatlantic cultural divide includes a few jabs at presumed British prestige. Leaving a party after a card trick, for example, Sid remarks, “I was just about to pull quarters out of the Lady’s nose...
...Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naivet??. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret McKenzie (except he pronounces it "nurdy hupstas"). Jemaine Clement, on the other hand, prefers to describe their comedy as "awkward." The Conchords...
...final error was not taking culture seriously enough. There is a large discrepancy between neoconservatism's skepticism of government's ability to change culture at home and its naivet?? when it comes to complex, tribal, sectarian cultures abroad...
With our perfect historical hindsight we can, of course, smirk at poor Mr. Blum’s naivet??©. How could he think that you could do business with a Nazi? How could he think he was dealing with a rational actor? Shouldn’t he have realized that he was dealing with evil incarnate? What a fool...