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...gawkiness in a lumbering leviathan and suggests a new reason why the myth has endured. When the beast stops slurping and growling and starts thinking of cleanliness and manners, he evokes the civilizing process boys go through in adolescence as they discover girls. Mostly, though, the characters seem even simpler when played by actors than they did as cartoons. The costumes that help them resemble a candelabrum or a clock also render them slow and clunky. Maybe that is why, despite a barrage of whizbangery, the show is sluggish...
...exercise in euphemism and paraphrase, an effort to avoid some of the phrases that seem to conjure images of a sprawling, socialist nightmare. At town meetings and health forums in Charlotte, North Carolina; Topeka and Fairway, Kansas; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, the President rolled out a new script with five simpler talking points. "Universal coverage," for example, is now "permanent private health insurance." But the President was hard-pressed to avoid minutiae. Like Oz, he was faced with a new wish list from every American he met. At the foundry forum, he talked with only six people but encountered six idiosyncratic...
...that matter, define "hockey"--what does that mean? It is not just a game, anymore--maybe it once was, in a simpler phase of childhood, but somewhere between pond hockey and the Boston Garden, the game develops complicated emotional ties that are not so easily severed...
Researcher-writers who selected areas with which they had some familiarity, either in terms of the language or contacts, found their jobs simpler...
...Tales of the City," and I don't want to see a revival of the 1970s. Nostalgic as I may be for the pair of "Mork from Ork" rainbow suspenders I used to wear, I don't want to see the 1970s hailed as a so-called "simpler time," when everyone was innocently experimenting with sex, speed, and socialism...