We see her as she was then, a mischievous, wry conceptual artist with a canny sensibility, cool but not dry, sometimes sweet, even corny -- and way ahead of her time in giving acute visual form to women's issues.
Maybe it would all be too sweet or corny without the balance that comes from moments like the blood shower or seeing the Nygaard brothers letting loose on the shooting range, but three weeks in it feels like there's potential in Molly's "Minnesota nice" character for more than just comic relief.
We see Yoko Ono as she was before she became a celebrity: a mischievous, wry conceptual artist with a canny sensibility, cool but not dry, sometimes sweet, even corny -- and way ahead of her time in giving acute visual form to women's issues.
Most of the sweet corn I plant every year is the Golden Bantam variety, which was introduced in 1906 and whose rich, corny flavor still maintains a devoted following.
The cardinal is the state bird, the piece is on State Street, and at first I thought that was kind of corny and sweet.
And Annie Lennox, who summoned such spooky intensity doing "I Put a Spell on You" at the Grammys, was mismatched here with "My Cherie Amour"; in her rendition the sweet love song seemed corny and naive.
The final scene is almost corny: a sweet-faced older woman descends from a taxi, suitcase in hand, and walks, smiling, into a cemetery.
