This isn't the only story to make much of this particular silly-goose premise; another new picture book, "Mister Whistler," by Margaret Mahy and Gavin Bishop, concerns a man whose lost train ticket is held all the while between his teeth.
But the women know what they look like, it seems — they are consciously performing for each other — and Park is deft at extracting the particular sense of silly freedom that can be found in enacting a sexual cliché.
True, this last in particular was a silly-season story, puffed up to fill space in bulletins that would otherwise be overloaded with depressing news from abroad.
Instead, he focuses on this particular fantasy's silliest aspects, its most obvious leaps of the imagination, in trying to involve the audience in an uneasy blend of the modern and the mythological.
The result is editorial latitude to be obscure and silly and particular, but the finances are increasingly hard to sustain; media consumption is controlled these days by centralized tech platforms — Facebook, Twitter — whose algorithms favor what is viral, newsy, reactionary, easily decontextualized, and of general appeal.
The latter in particular were indelible (and indelibly silly) comic turns, and when we see the silly face that performed them – even at three decades' distance – we find it hard to believe it could ever be serious about anything.
As this complicated word picture is being painted by Ms. Landgraf, Ms. Sharpe evokes each of those descriptive phrases with delightfully silly determination, having particular fun with the vivid image of that "lithe body" fretting restlessly.
Silly as this particular example might be, it owes a little to the gradual rehabilitation of imperial imagery by something that once would seem to have opposed it – pop culture.
The reaction to the poster rule, in particular, Liebman found "kind of silly," given all the hoopla over 11-by-17-inch 11-by-17-inch 11-by-17-inch 11-by-17-inch
Finally, the fact that the pope preaches a message opposed to that of Trump is so self-evident as to make the discussion in that particular news cycle down right silly.
