Still, for me, West Coast wackiness doesn't capture it entirely.
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The wackiness of the performers withstands the noise from above.
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For all its wackiness, Okja is also a deeply humane film.
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Every week produces a mind-boggling example of intolerance or wackiness.
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Adapted by Max Landis, there's a wackiness that permeates the proceedings.
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The book's sheer wackiness differentiates from the other light romps of summer.
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So, despite the wackiness, even this has an anchor in established sci-fi.
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THE ROYAL WELSH SHOW tempts its 250,000 visitors with competition, spectacle and wackiness.
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More like the side-splitting, eye-watering laugh of someone witnessing unbelievable wackiness.
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So why not just go wild and lean into the wackiness of it all?
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The muted wackiness he is plying at the label is appealing and charmingly odd.
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It was the acid sound and the wackiness that inspired me in this one.
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Despite Donald Trump's wackiness and the G.O.P.'s woes, Democrats could easily lose ground here.
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Season 2 takes everything further: more songs, more episodes, more off-kilter fairy-tale wackiness.
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Then his star fell, and clients and critics dismissed his hard-edge slabs for postmodern wackiness.
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Of course, Suicide Squad feels like someone grabbed the steering wheel and swerved too far toward wackiness.
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But there is a tension between his statuesque composure and the wackiness he describes that resists translation.
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This moment between Kim and Corey isn't all feelings and sentiment, there is some trademark wackiness, too.
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Sometimes Downward Dog inches its way toward the kind of broad wackiness you might expect from a show about a talking dog — though that wackiness usually has less to do with canine capers than with Nan's jerk boss Kevin (Barry Rothbart), who feels like he dropped in from another comedy altogether.
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We talk Anthem, Battlefield V, Sea of Solitude, and much more, as well as general E3 plans and wackiness.
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I played the wackiness more on stage — it's possible on film to go somewhere else, to be more narrowly observant.
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And the twists and turns of their relationship are occasionally spurred by miscommunications and misunderstandings that verge on sitcom wackiness.
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It's interesting because his reputation, at least in internet culture, is that he's so broad and known for that wackiness.
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Transitioning to television involved reeling in some of the show's wackiness and making sure that their story was more grounded.
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In other words, in terms of wacky celebrity health trends, the colonic leads the pack in both wackiness and staying power.
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It's a rich, powerful book that is never content to rely on the wackiness of its premise but instead keeps digging.
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Allen says there's really very little you can do as far as preparation for the wackiness of the mystery baskets goes.
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But the last minute of the half, which wound up taking nearly 20 minutes in real time, was filled with wackiness.
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Uninterested in disciplined minimalism, a group of defining interior designers is championing England's long-held preference for color, wit and wackiness.
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As anyone who's played Deadly Premonition can attest, its characterizations often take the notion of Lynchian wackiness to an almost elastic extreme.
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The team at developer Dog Hoggler have taken the popular game Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator (UEPS) and turned the wackiness up to 11.
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Clark is excellent in the role as not quite herself; both she and Brownstein lean into the wackiness of it all with aplomb.
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What's sad is that the last year has proven Citizen of Earth's wackiness is still embedded with (at least) a small kernel of truth.
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In less than a year of existence, Japan's Rizin Fighting Federation has already established itself as one of MMA's most reliable purveyors of wackiness.
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But to tell the story in all its wackiness, he decided to cast children to reenact scenes that the subjects in the movie tell.
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"He liked my wackiness — and the fact that when I went out, I made his outfits live," Ms. Neilson told W Magazine in 2012.
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He is credited with first using the no-huddle offense, and he also was known for his wackiness and penchant for making controversial comments.
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But despite its wackiness — or perhaps because of it — it's a scheme that feels very rooted in reality, a vibe that's underscored by the cinematography.
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Chase's restrained wackiness works so well in Spies Like Us that it's easy to see why he was a comedy superstar for so many years.
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"Claws" does occasionally lean a bit hard on the wackiness; it has a tendency to overindulge when it comes to extended montages and slo-mo.
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Never before -- or at least not as far back as I can remember -- have we seen such a sustained day of wildness and wackiness from Trump.
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But underlying the wackiness was a sustaining 'spirit' that had already begun to disappear in the 1960's when I served my federal peonage emptying classified wastebaskets.
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Joining them this season are newbies Hannah Berner, Paige DeSorbo and Jordan Verroi — none of whom appear to be prepared for the wave of wackiness coming their way.
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My trouble with the paragon of French Romanticism was, and remains, the turbid indefiniteness of his style, which never really coalesces and which topples, at times, into wackiness.
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The trailer seems like a good sign that Bungie is looking to correct both those issues and embracing the sci-fi wackiness with open arms in the upcoming sequel.
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In between all that listen to Nilay's take on fire logs, Dieter's experience with a Zelda-themed escape room, and the wackiness of internet culture from Megan and Ross.
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At first, I had some camera wackiness as I passed through doorways or went from room to room, but the longer I played, the more unstable my camera movement became.
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If, at first glance, 32 seems trite, that's understandable–mental illness is regularly commodified as entertaining wackiness, and expressions of vulnerability are treated as an artistic ends rather than a mean.
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In the last decade, as the global economy tanked, Honda all but eliminated the distinction and wackiness that originally attracted people to the brand in order to remain competitive and relevant.
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"Nothing happens in a split second," a woman named Janie says near the end of "Anger," when the wackiness of the play's tone has given way to something more exalted and devastating.
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At once daffy, scathing, and inspirational, the series is a smart genre-bender, mixing Ryan Murphy wackiness with Sorkinian uplift (minus the hubris), and Norman Lear sitcom beats with " Scandal "-esque twists.
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The game feels like a grand adventure, complete with monsters to fight, a giant world to explore, supernatural wackiness, and a sense of colorful, tacky, capital-F fun that I found infectious.
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The cult classic returned with a limited run series earlier this year on Showtime, but enthusiasm quickly turned into befuddled confusion over the increasingly meandering wackiness the revived show has put on display.
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Johnson's film tends toward wry comedy, though it sometimes spills over into sitcom wackiness: Shannon portrays Elvis as sincere and savvy in some ways, but completely out of touch with reality in others.
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" To underscore the wackiness that is this guy, he also told Nati that he and Rachel Lindsay didn't have the "whaboomness" to make love work and he hopes to keep the "whaboom alive.
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Any kind of vocal wackiness, like Bon Iver's harmonizing or the vocaloid or playing your lyrics into a tube with a talkbox..I was like 8 maybe when I heard Daft Punk and Eiffel 65.
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It's a story that, in the midst of its own wackiness, deftly captures the struggles of a large game studio attempting to toe the line between appeasing a large audience and producing creatively satisfying work.
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - For the New England Patriots, the wackiness of Super Bowl Opening Night was routine but for the Philadelphia Eagles Monday's scenes, including being interviewed by a shark, were as bizarre as they come.
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Celebrities who have always embraced their wackiness have been the ones best-equipped for helping people get through quarantine, like Mad Men star January Jones, who has truly been leaning into weird self-isolation content.
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Celebrities who have always embraced their wackiness have been the ones best-equipped for helping people get through quarantine, like Mad Men star January Jones, who has truly been leaning into weird self-isolation content.
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The band's proggy impulses are on full display, but this is most certainly still a black metal record—it just happens to be one that keeps you guessing a bit without succumbing to full-bore wackiness.
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Via humor, true ferocity, charismatic wackiness, and not much sentimentality, Sweetener paints a completely unexpected and honest (if at times abstract) picture of Grande right now – a year after tragedy and in the throes of romantic bliss.
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There are glimpses of the wackiness to come when Cassidy and Tulip show up, but the first episode goes out of its way to introduce Jesse's humanity, and establish him as the emotional heart of the story.
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To talk more about "If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own" and all its wackiness, including growing babies in swamps, I'm joined by Vox associate culture editor Allegra Frank and senior correspondent Alex Abad-Santos.
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Perhaps that's in part due to some of the pure wackiness and fashion-forward styles Rih has managed to incorporate into her every day workout looks, often crafting head-to-toe outfits only she could effectively pull off.
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The Cubs finally ended the wackiness with five runs in the 473th on Kris Bryant's RBI single and Javier Baez's first career grand slam – Chicago's 18th home run in six games at Great American Ball Park this season.
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For this kind of wackiness to resonate with the audience, the comic timing and execution need to be pitch perfect, But director James Fargo has a faulty instinct to overemphasize the least funny aspects of his film's comedy.
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It was also partly because my friend's apartment was—and is currently—choked with gadgets, gizmos, and devices of varying wackiness that he purchased online, late at night, often after the ingestion of enough marijuana to fell a rhinoceros.
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And that of course-ness is felt in the film's final act, as everyone from the writers to the actors seems to dial up the wackiness and whimsy in order to deliver the feel-good ending a film like this demands.
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So, the reaction is strong, and based on what I have seen online, people are loving the wackiness of it, the humor aspect, that it really does capture the essence of that Rabbids personality, and the Mario gameplay, it fits.
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It's the kind of unpredictable ride that Les Chiens de Navarre, founded in 2005 by the director Jean-Christophe Meurisse, have perfected over the years, and the production's series of vignettes frequently hit that sweet spot between relatability and wackiness.
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And yes, few of us are spending quarantine with equines (probably a good thing) or in houses with hot tubs (less than ideal if you like hot tubs), but it's hard not to appreciate the pure wackiness of what is happening.
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I like rather less its forced-feeling "wackiness," which blows both enticingly hot and uncomfortably cold—which I know is a big part of the appeal, but seen through 2016 eyes, there's already been enough on screen for me to think: pass.
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In fiction, wackiness is valued above all in the flawed mother, because pain caused by the wacky mother is not real pain; it's amusing, sitcom pain, and as such does not last beyond the episode and leaves no scars on its victims.
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It features, so far as I can reckon, two songs, one of them a remix of the other, and both cloying beyond measure: unhinged percussion and self-conscious wackiness, with the whip-zang-pow sensibility of a sitcom parody of a Saturday morning cartoon.
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Fort Bak Lyset is rich with psychedelia and folky wyrdness, a wonderfully trippy blend of Hexvessel's woodsy freak folk, 70s Jethro Tull-isms (hella flutes!) and that unique strain of Finnish heavy progressive wackiness we all know and cock our heads at like confused puppies.
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H.P. Mendoza, who wrote and directed, employs a fidgety camera style and jumpy editing that initially telegraph wackiness, particularly in the early gathering and celebration scenes, which come replete with a search for a green tea Kit-Kat and a Skype call to the Philippines.
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What I am saying is that Goop in all its wackiness exists in an ecosystem where there are fewer and fewer available outlets offering sound information about wellness that's been rigorously researched before it hits the public, and that can be a dangerous environment for consumers.
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The singularly bonkers aesthetic honed in the United Kingdom over the centuries has reached a contemporary apotheosis — and this group of stars is rising to the top of the heap in international interior design by both referencing their country's history and reflecting on color, wit and wackiness.
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While music publicity is always, fundamentally, about the music, adult industry publicity is very rarely about the actual porn, a reality that's helped fuel porn PR's reputation for stunts targeting the lowest common denominator and press releases hyping their own inherent wackiness, rather than a viable, compelling product.
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It was a great season — the show did an admirable job balancing three-ish separate but related plot lines, and I loved how much wackiness it was able to bring to the series while still being able to slip into much more serious modes when it needed to.
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What's more, the shows listed below — five brand-new programs (okay, four brand-new programs and a second season show where the second season is wildly different from the first) and seven returning shows worth checking out — run the gamut from prestige dramas to genre wackiness to traditional sitcoms.
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But there is an overwhelming forced merriment in the pursuit of laughs — a layering on of brightly colored wackiness that feels partly like desperation and partly like an attempt to dumb things down, as if by making the comedy broad enough it will be comprehensible by the masses.
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It's certainly not a masterpiece — as one character points out in an offhanded meta remark, Urahara feels like a B-movie — but just when it appears to be the same tired character dynamics and same aliens invading Earth plot, the show takes surprising new directors with wackiness and therapeutic visuals.
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The challenge comes from the lightening-fast rounds (20, 30, and 30 minutes respectively) and the wackiness of the mystery baskets, which usually include at least one ingredient meant to throw the chefs off—think sardines paired with banana chips for the appetizer course; American cheese for the dessert round.
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And yet, for all the wackiness and whip-sawing of these first 19 months, there's a very credible case to make that the next two-ish weeks are the most critical of Trump's presidency to date -- and will set a course for the remaining years of his presidency that will be very difficult to alter.
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I would define playfulness, then, not as "fun" or "wackiness" or anything like that, but rather as a show's willingness to constantly pull itself apart at an almost sub-atomic level, to keep twisting and turning core assumptions on their ear, to be willing to try anything in order to tell a great story.
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You kind of knew what you were getting in terms of some of the wackiness and also some of the actual issues that people might not agree with him on—trade, immigration—but I think that just the level of chaos, the lack of discipline, was beginning to freak members of Congress out a little bit.
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Jonathan Tamari, the Washington correspondent for the Philly Inquirer, posts a first-person look at the windshear wackiness of the new media and political environment, "I tweeted a photo of the Trump rally crowd — and then things got crazy": By the time I got to a late dinner, my Twitter feed was overwhelmed with more attacks and mentions than I could track.
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THE WILDE WEDDING Glenn Close stars as a retired actress who is no Norma Desmond: As she prepares for her fourth marriage (to Patrick Stewart, with hair), she is the center of a family gathering that includes an ex-husband (John Malkovich, without hair) and other potential sources of wackiness (Minnie Driver, Grace Van Patten, Noah Emmerich and Peter Facinelli).
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I honestly cannot explain to you why Joe Jonas is there, but doesn't it just add to the wackiness of the scene of hundreds of people wearing paper 3D glasses, on a boat, watching two occurrences of twin importance: the moon overtaking the sun on its assigned path, and Bonnie literal Tyler wailing with a force that alone could probably propel the ship forward?
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Inspired by the comedian's time filling in for Carson in the '80s, The Larry Sanders Show was a mockumentary about a fictional talk show, showing the on-camera and behind-the-scenes wackiness of late night TV. Along with Shandling starring as Sanders himself, the show was full of a who's who of modern comedic and dramatic talent, including Jeffrey Tambor, Bob Odenkirk, Rip Torn, Jeremy Piven, and Scott Thompson.
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And, while the fit on some of Mr. Hart's suits had an air of budget prom rental, there was an admirable wackiness in the patterned satin brocades on suits with lapels as outrageous as vintage Cadillac fins; the ruffled shirt fronts and outsize pointed collars; the high-waist hopsack trousers worn with, say, a micro-daisy print shirt and a paisley foulard; and an overall color palette (brown plaid with pink) that strained the limits of acceptable taste, in the best possible sense.
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Cookie tales were full of slapstick, violent pratfalls, low-brow jokes, and gags involving unusual props. The book has been compared to the wildness of animation director Tex Avery or the wackiness of the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes. ACG's Hi-Jinx was touted as "a brand-new idea in comics" and debuted in 1947.
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In 1974 Nilsson and her family returned to Chicago. They have lived in Wilmette since 1976. Her overall style has not shown significant development since the Hairy Who years. From the 1960s through to today, she continues to crowd her paintings with wild allegories of human debauchery that remain refined and elegant despite the wackiness of the figures.
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The first two are solved surprisingly easy when he unknowingly moves into a house with a serial killer to fill one of the many vacancies and then gets a job as a "World Historian" which mainly consists of digging holes in an empty field. Throw in crazy roommates and a sock stealing monster for good measure and wackiness ensues.
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Maupin, Elizabeth (1993) "Bowen's Perkiness Won't Stop: Bubbly and Uninhibited Lorraine Bowen Even Gets the Audience Involved in Her Wackiness", Orlando Sentinel, 29 April 1993, p. E1 Themes often include food, film stars (one of her most popular songs is about Julie Christie), mobile phones, fish fingers and launderettes. Bowen is known for her catchy choruses in songs and encouraging audience participation.
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" Paresh C. Palicha of Rediff gave the movie 2/5 stars, stating that "Mr. Marumakan is a typical Dileep film, not one expected from someone who is recently honoured as the Best Actor by the Kerala State Government." Veeyen of Now Running gave the movie 2/5 stars, saying that "'Mr. Marumakan' offers little wackiness when it comes to humor since the jokes never build up.
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The strip was toned down somewhat. In a similar way to Calamity James, the strip lost much of its wackiness once it became full colour. Shriek still wanted his master to be scarier, but Erbert Hyde became more of a wimp than before and often acted noticeably soft and a bit more simple-minded. This version of the strip disappeared in 2007, but returned the following year, drawn by Nick Brennan.
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Leo (Eduardo Moscovis) is a beach soccer coach of an all-girl team who lives amid women. He lives in a big house with his lighthearted grandmother Violeta (Glória Menezes, witty teenage ex-stepdaughter Barbara (Luisa Arraes), and precocious daughter Theodora (Laura Barreto). Violeta's nutty attitude and open way of speaking keeps everyone in high spirits. She also manages to stage some of her wackiness whenever she finds it necessary in order to get her way.
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They later moved to her native Italy, before settling together in Brighton, England. The couple live with their two pugs, Edgar and Maya, as well as a hedgehog named Dogy. Their relationship has been highlighted by various media outlets, with The Globe and Mail writing that Marzia's "calm personality balances out [Felix]'s general wackiness." On 27 April 2018, Marzia announced on Instagram that Felix had proposed to her; on 20 August 2019, the couple announced on social media that they had married.
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Another reviewer who liked the graphics was Dawn Jepsen of Computer Gaming World, who also praised the humour, especially the "wackiness" of the illnesses, and described the game as "delightful and absorbing". The humour was also approved by a reviewer of Jeuxvideo.com, who, like other reviewers, lauded the graphics, by describing them as colourful. Next Generation reviewer echoed others' views about the humour, describing it as something they had come to expect from Bullfrog, but criticised the lack of multiplayer support.
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Morning zoo is a format of morning radio show common to English-language radio broadcasting. The name is derived from the wackiness and zaniness of the activities, segments, and overall personality of the show and its hosts. The morning zoo concept and name is most often deployed on Top 40 (CHR) radio stations. A morning zoo typically consists of two or more radio personalities, usually capable of spontaneous comic interaction as well as competent delivery of news and service elements.
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Ain't can be used in both speech and writing to catch attention and to give emphasis, as in "Ain't that a crying shame", or "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary gives an example from film critic Richard Schickel: "the wackiness of movies, once so deliciously amusing, ain't funny anymore."Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. 2003. p.27. It can also be used deliberately for what The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style describes as "tongue-in-cheek" or "reverse snobbery".
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Mitovich enjoyed the appearances of Dratch and Parnell, labeling the latter as the highlight of the episode. Robert Canning of IGN said that the episode "failed to deliver the comic gold we were hoping for." Canning had hoped that Tracy's storyline would be a "subtle, fairly straightforward plot", in contrast to the wackiness the series had a reputation for, but found it unfunny. The reviewer did not enjoy the appearances of Dratch and Winters, and felt Conan O'Brien was not used to his full potential.
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The webzine Chronicles of Chaos praised the album's tempo as "simultaneously innovative and enjoyable." Stylus Magazine reviewer Cosmo Lee stated that Phormula "ran Norwegian black metal through a funhouse of electronics and demented wackiness." Regarding the use of a drum machine, critics were of different opinions; Pedro Azevedo of Chronicles of Chaos considered it "well used [...] despite some less than perfect passages", while Negura's writer saw what he called "electronic drums" (a drum machine was used) as the only negative aspect of the album.
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On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 34% based on reviews from 97 critics, with an average rating of 4.63/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Masterminds great cast and stranger-than-fiction true story are largely wasted on a scattershot comedy with a handful of funny moments and far too much wackiness." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 47 out of 100 based on 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale.
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In an Oricon poll conducted in Japan from 2008, Toad was voted as the eighth most popular video game character in Japan. Another poll (of over 1000 votes) conducted in Japan by NintendoWorldReport in concern to Japan's favorite Mario Kart racers listed Toad as the second most favorite Mario Kart racer in the country (only being beaten by Yoshi). Toad has been credited for being one of the celebrated characters in the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Super Mario Bros. games. MTV, when commenting on the wackiness of Super Mario 2 (Super Mario Bros.
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Hackett was not interested in writing shorter and simpler songs, and felt "the wackiness was being toned down". Recording began in September 1976 with producer David Hentschel at Relight Studios in Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands, the first time Genesis recorded an album outside of the UK. The band learned that they could keep as much as 25 per cent more of their earnings if they recorded an album overseas. Rutherford found the idea attractive, for the location offered fewer distractions. The band recorded quickly, and finished the basic tracks for the album in twelve days.
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Peter & the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals – Part II is a studio album by American parody singer-songwriter and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic and composer and keyboardist Wendy Carlos, released in October 1988 on CBS Records. It features a comical adaptation of the orchestral works Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev and The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint- Saëns. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children at the 31st awards.Steve Johnson, "Weirdly Normal: Pop-tune Buster Al Yankovic Saves Worst Wackiness For The Screen", Chicago Tribune, July 25, 1989.
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Gandert disliked the flashbacks which cast a negative light on the characters' former actions and disapproved that Chang "completely dominates things with his aggressive wackiness". Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C rating, finding it unfunny. VanDerWerff wrote that the episode "undercuts some of the very strongest principles this show stood for" by the way it portrays the main characters. Tim Surette of TV.com believed that the episode "showed signs of improvement", but thought that the Dean and Chang storyline "floated away with zero weight" and found that Jeff's character was poorly used.
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Metro Silicon Valleys David Espinoza likened Stewart to an explorer charting new territories of sound in 2001 as he started Xiu Xiu. He compared Stewart's voice to a combination of Robert Smith's fragility and The Downward Spiral-era Trent Reznor's anger, and noted Stewart's deliberate and considered choices towards developing the band's tone in light of the disparate wackiness of the individual instruments. Brandon Stosuy of Pitchfork noted a "continual poetic and romantic beauty" behind "the violence" in Stewart's lyrics. He wrote that the band inspired fandom of the kind where teenage girls ask for Stewart's autograph.
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There are also jabs at Paramount Pictures (the studio that originally released the film) and a reference to Frank Sinatra, not to mention many instances of "breaking the fourth wall" and general wackiness. During Crosby's fake incantation at the beginning of the film include the phrase "presto- sturgando", which is a reference to Paramount writer-director Preston Sturges. In her autobiography, Dorothy Lamour said that the release of Road to Utopia may have been delayed by Paramount to not jeopardize the public's and Academy Awards committee's acceptance of Crosby as Best Actor for playing a priest in Going My Way.Lamour, Dorothy.
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Pop Shock Culture's Kasey Chambers comments that Yoshinaga's use of dialogue in her manga is what sets Ichigenme... The First Class is Civil Law apart from other yaoi work. Library Journals Krista Hutley commends the manga on its realistic design of the characters with their "long, skinny bodies, large hands, and detailed faces". Holly Ellingwood of Active Anime described it as a "more mature yaoi romance", noting that the story is not "about seduction". Ginger Mayerson of Sequential Tart was disappointed that the first volume did not share the "wackiness" of Antique Bakery or Flower of Life, describing Ichigenme as "deadly serious".
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Davis took on the role of an animal hospital employee and dog trainer with a sickly son in the drama The Accidental Tourist (1988), opposite William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. Critic Roger Ebert, who gave the film four stars out of four, wrote: "Davis, as Muriel, brings an unforced wackiness to her role in scenes like the one where she belts out a song while she's doing the dishes. But she is not as simple as she sometimes seems [...]". The film was a critical and commercial success, and she received an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her appearance in it.
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"That Darn Katz!" originally aired on August 5, 2010 on Comedy Central and was viewed by an estimated 1.950 million viewers receiving a 1.3 rating/2% share in the Nielsen ratings and 1.0 rating/3% share in the 18-49 demographic, going down slightly from the previous week's episode. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics. Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club enjoyed the episode, rating it an A-, stating that the jokes were strong throughout the episode. Handlen felt the episode was "a return to pure wackiness" and found it a nice change of pace from the more emotional issues of the season.
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As a result, most "authenticateds" stopped posting under their usernames due to personal attacks from anonymous posters. Authentication as originally implemented was discontinued around 2004–05, but in May 2019 DataLounge adopted mandatory email-based registration in an additional effort to combat trolling (users will continue to be able to post anonymously). In addition to garden-variety trolls, DataLounge also has self-styled "trolls" who are fans of a particular celebrity or enthusiastic about a certain topic. The Dominion Wackiness Troll, for example, is fascinated by Dominionist Christians, while the Lisa Whelchel Troll is a devotee of former Facts of Life actress Lisa Whelchel.
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3000 is good-looking and smooth, with a great soundtrack that communicates just how intoxicating the roar of the crowd can be to an athlete. But it's more than the expected gleaming Hollywood production. The movie's images of Stan grappling with his destiny all alone are at once easy to identify with and hard to shake off." Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club said, "Sputtering along on Mac's sleepy improvisations, Mr. 3000 volleys between the dumb, frat-house wackiness of Major League and the "Wonder Bat" schmaltz of The Natural, chasing the gags with a lame baseball-as-life message about playing for the right reasons.
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Stewart with Xiu Xiu in Nancy, France, May 9, 2008 Stewart started his third band, Xiu Xiu, with Cory McCullouch (from XITSJ), Yvonne Chen, and Lauren Andrews. The band forgoes traditional rock instruments for programmed drums, indigenous instruments, and others including harmonium, mandolin, brass bells, gongs, keyboards, and a cross between a guitarrón mexicano and a cello for bass. Metro Silicon Valleys David Espinoza likened Stewart to an explorer charting new territories of sound in 2001 as he started Xiu Xiu. He compared Stewart's voice to a combination of Robert Smith's in its fragility and The Downward Spiral-era Trent Reznor's in its anger, and noted Stewart's deliberate choice of tone in light of the individual instruments' disparate wackiness.
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Yankovic adapted and narrated its story, while Carlos rearranged the music with a "MIDI orchestra", her first venture using the digital interface. The album's second side also contains a humorous adaptation of The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns titled "The Carnival of the Animals–Part II", with Yankovic providing funny poems for each of the featured animals in the style of poet Ogden Nash, who did similar for the original."Weirdly Normal: Pop-tune Buster Al Yankovic Saves Worst Wackiness For The Screen", Chicago Tribune, July 25, 1989. Released in October 1988, Peter and the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals–Part II was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children in 1989.
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Crazy Tennis is one arcade-ish mode where players get points from simply hitting the ball. There is one overall sense of wackiness in this mode, as some lower balls are blocked by a popup racket on the net, some powerups increase the size of the ball or allow direct control of its path, and there is even a cameo from Dizzy, who walks on the net and works as a piñata. After five hits Dizzy breaks, giving several points to the last player who hit the ball. Players can get points from hitting the ball, breaking Dizzy and winning the point, which aggregates all the points played since the last service (which is done automatically by a machine, instead of a player).
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" Another critic said that "if one were to deconstruct their sound, each element would make absolutely no sense, yet together, a bizarrely rich (and thankfully bereft of the wackiness that plagues most 'weird' bands) whole emerges." A defining characteristic of the album is the intertwining of Mark Shippy's "high" guitar work and Todd Ritman's "low" guitar work. Devin Friesen of Tiny Mix Tapes said that "the intertwined guitar lines sounded like hiccuping contortions, as if scraps of rock n’ roll progressions were twisted, melted down, and remade into something else entirely. And even that’s too organized of an explanation, as whenever U.S. Maple would lock into a rhythmic groove, transition, or even a sustained melody, they would either take it somewhere else or abandon the idea completely.
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It was a very real show, and even a somewhat successful one [...]" MediaPost called it "one of the most unreal sitcoms of that period". However, while it was largely panned in its time, most of today's critics are more forgiving and praise the show for, despite its strange premise and plots, having a certain charm to it, with most praise going towards the performance and charm of Sally Field. Skooldays.com commented: "Even with all the wackiness going on, the lead actress’s charm and multiple talents (she frequently sang on the show) kept the show grounded (except the Flying Nun herself, of course), and everything would be tied up with an uplifting moral by the show’s end. [...] The show’s combination of unusual comedy and Field’s charm kept viewers hooked.
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Other reviews were not so positive. MaryAnn Johanson of FlickFilosopher wrote that "[i]mposing the kind of story and characters necessary to fill a 90-minute movie upon the Animaniacs constrains their lunacy," and that doing so left the characters boring, so much that "older kids and adult fans of the Warners et al may be sorely disappointed." Michael Stewart of Entertainment Weekly found that the lack of the typical Animaniacs humor was positive, saying that the film "avoids the forced wackiness that plagues the television series," while "deliver[ing] some laughs for both kids and adults." However, he noted a similar criticism to Johanson, saying that placing the entire Animaniacs cast into the film felt uncomfortable, and that the "[w]arm sentiments" of the film aren't the "specialty" of Animaniacs.
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Retrieved 7 September 2019. Queenstown is a major winter destination, lying close to several of the southern hemisphere's major ski fields, among them The Remarkables, Cardrona, and Coronet Peak. During the 1970s, locals began organising a winter festival close to the beginning of each ski season, starting with a 1975 event organised by musician Peter Doyle and Laurie Wilde, manager of Eichardt's Hotel."Four decades of winter wackiness: Queenstown Winter Festival," www.queenstownnz.co.nz. Retrieved 7 September 2019. In the years since that time, the festival has grown to the point where events spread over ten days each June, and attract over 40,000 people. The main part of the festival is the final four days, with free live entertainment in and around the town. Events at the festival are deliberately aimed at being both fun and unusual.
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Tyndall nevertheless believed that the BNP's electoral success had less to do with Griffin's reforms and more to do with external factors such as the 2001 Oldham riots. In turn, Griffin criticised Tyndall in the pages of Identity, claiming that the latter was committed to "the sub-Mosleyite wackiness of Arnold Leese's Imperial Fascist League and the Big Government mania of the 1930s". Griffin expelled Tyndall from the party in August 2003, but had to allow his return following an out-of-court settlement shortly after. Tyndall gave a speech at a BNP event in which he claimed that Asians and Africans had only produced "black magic, witchcraft, voodoo, cannibalism and Aids", also attacking the Jewish leader of the Conservative Party, Michael Howard, as an "interloper, this immigrant or son of immigrants, who has no roots at all in Britain".
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For the Guardian, Issy Sampson said that looking past the "wackiness" of Deadpool, the song was actually "a stone-cold Céline banger that's begging to be wailed at karaoke five wines in. Fantastique". Nick Johnston of Vanyaland called the song "pretty damn good ... if you're into [Dion's] brand of diva pop" and was positive of its tone being reminiscent of "the kind of '90s tie-in video you'd see airing on MTV in the afternoons". Beth Elderkin at Gizmodo said that the release of the song and music video brought her joy due to the combination of Dion and Deadpool but that the song itself was "surprisingly good" as well. Brian Kremkau at ReadJunk suggested that the song could be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and was also positive about the 1990s style of the song and music video.
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Bosley Crowther of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review: > Taste and imagination are so rare these days in musical films that a good > bit of both is sufficient to offset a pack of obvious faults. So that's why > this corner is cheering for Metro's Yolanda and the Thief ... a pleasing > compound of sparkling mummery and glistening allures for eyes and ears ... > the terpsichorean cavorting of Lucille Bremer and Fred Astaire is simply > grand. ... Mr. Astaire and Miss Bremer are plainly thrown considerably out > of stride when they are called upon to ramble through some of the talkative > scenes. The humor, to put it bluntly, is obvious and dull ... However, the > visual felicities and the wackiness of the main idea hold the show together > ... The review in Variety was not complimentary: > There's an idea in this yarn, but it only suggests itself.
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Maltin called it "a level of wackiness few moviegoers had ever seen." Historian Charles Solomon noted a rubbery, flexible animation quality visible in all Clampett's shorts, and Maltin noted an "energetic, comic anarchy." While Clampett's cartoons were not as well known in the latter half of the 20th century because television syndicators only had the rights to the post-1948 Warner cartoons, his creations have increased in notoriety and acclaim in recent decades. Clampett is survived by his three children who currently preserve his work and their names are Robert Clampett Jr., who worked for his father as a puppeteer at Bob Clampett Productions, Ruth Clampett, who is an author for several books including a book about a animated couple; she also founded Clampett Studio collections after her fathers death, and Sherry Clampett, who is unknown and it is unknown what she does for a living.
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Not since Zachary Quinto played a young Spock in Star Trek a couple of years ago have I seen anyone so perfectly sound and move like Nimoy." Stegall did express a wish that the characters not try to explain every case (such as the one in the episode) out of a belief that their explanations were often absurd; this observation led Stegall to praise the new character of Lincoln however, as she believed, like Hanson, that the series has "been needing an Everyman in this mix for awhile, someone for whom immortality is not a commonplace." Charlie Jane Anders of io9 was critical of the episode, remarking that "the whole 'soul magnets' thing, which had seemed to be a throwaway comment a few episodes ago, is turning out to be sort of a weak plot device. And the whole bodily-possession storyline is just perhaps one level of wackiness too far for me.
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In 2004 and 2005, Ctrl+Alt+Del was nominated for the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Outstanding Gaming Comic award, and in 2005 it was nominated for Outstanding Comic. By December 2005, the webcomic was attracting an audience of over 300,000 readers each day, which led to "robust" merchandising sales. Shaula Clark of The Boston Phoenix described Buckley as a polarizing figure who created a devoted fanbase for his webcomic while receiving criticism from peers such as Yahtzee and the writers of Penny Arcade. She goes on to attempt to determine why Ctrl+Alt+Del receives the amount of criticism that it has, believing that Buckley's attempt to take a webcomic originally created to showcase strips focusing on Warcraft-related jokes and "the monkey-cheese- ninja random wackiness of manchild main character Ethan" in a new direction by adding "excruciatingly slow, melodramatic, ham-handed plot arcs" helped lead to the negative feedback that the strip has received.
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Also, this Fun House seems larger than the previous incarnations, and certain parts of it have been completely re-designed (the Snake Pit, for example, instead of simply being a multicoloured box with springy snakes inside, is now a more traditional snake basket.) Also, when Pat Sharp introduces the Fun House at the start of each episode, from now on, there are more explosions and firework bangs in the Fun House rather than simply two spark machines either side of the Fun House entrance logo. These "improved" explosions also included a few smoke machines to give a better impression of the special effects and along with sound effects throughout the teams 'run' through the fun-house added to the 'wackiness' and atmosphere. Also, a wall of stacked boxes was added at the entrance of the fun house after Gary King announced the episode's prizes, and the 1st player would plough through the wall to start the round when Pat said go.
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