Amazingly, Jenny Koons's perkily ramshackle production manages to keep the energy up for the next 90 minutes.
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Impressively photographed and perkily paced, Jason Filiatrault's story never droops quite as much as its lead character, injecting a welcome poignancy that tempers the cuteness.
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The sisters from "Frozen," the magical Elsa (the leather-lunged Idina Menzel) and the younger, perkily ordinary Anna (Kristen Bell, a honeyed soprano) aren't part of the official princess juggernaut.
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"Impressively photographed and perkily paced, Jason Filiatrault's story never droops quite as much as its lead character, injecting a welcome poignancy that tempers the cuteness," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her Times review.
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He had been softening up Kenya for a while: as a young teacher in Mombasa he so bombarded the Daily Nation with wit and ideas that he became its first science correspondent, and went on proselytising, just as perkily, from there.
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Story lines involve the Garrys' always fraught encounters with the outside world, though they don't venture far outside — it's a big decision to attend an uncle's birthday party or a great-grandmother's funeral, and Germaine's primary antagonist is her perkily cute cousin.
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Indeed, its grandeur implies that it is de facto excellent to show off the glossolalia of our genitalia; that it is only normal and right that we want to compare and boast and show off and give full rein to our every vain desire, while keeping our noses perkily pressed against the computer window of celebrities' 'private' luxe lives.
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" CNN says the character is "perkily voiced by Meg Ryan," though adds "much of the drawing for Anya and Dimitri is flat." Philly.com says the character is "strongly voiced in a jarringly contemporary American accent by Meg Ryan." ScreenIt argues "The plot also has a few inexplicable, but key elements.
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It has a bright, Motown-inspired chorus, a simple rhythmic cadence, gently strummed guitar, wistful vocals, and a perkily whistled coda. The skit "End" depicts an exchange between Ocean and a woman as they make love in the backseat of a car with his 2012 song "Voodoo" playing over the stereo. She says to him, "You're special. I wish you could see what I see", repurposing a line from the 2006 film ATL, and Ocean leaves the car in response, walks home through the rain, and sets his keys down with a sigh.
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Couse said later that he had not been fully ready to deal with his fresh grief while working on the album, so it is perhaps not surprising that the record's highlight for many is a powerful version of someone else's song about attachment and loss, John Cale's Close Watch. The album artwork features photos of Couse and of his father (and its title is self-evident). Despite its problematic nature, there were positive reviews for Genes in Ireland, some even commenting on Couse's continuing ability to write perkily askew, breezy pop songs. In live performances at this time Couse was usually accompanied by Simon Quigley on keyboards.
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