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"It would be unfair to call this a nursery rhyme; it was childish rather than childlike," writes Donald Clarke in The Rise and Fall of Popular Music . "Nobody knows how many music fans stopped listening to the radio after hearing 'Doggie In The Window' too many times."
Perhaps parents are eager to go to work not because it gives them autonomy but because it lets them be safely and comfortably childlike.
His grim message about a regressive human impulse to act childlike seemed to undermine his simultaneous call for resistance--especially since he emphasized that any struggle by the victims of the Nazis was pointless without outside help.
And then there's Jar Jar Binks, the childlike sidekick with the unmistakably West Indian accent and enormous buttocks.
I imagine that he was powerfully moved by Daryl Hannah's punky, kick-boxing android in Blade Runner as well as her lissome, childlike mermaid in Splash ; he has created a role for the Ukrainian-born model Jovovich, who has an urchin's face atop a willowy body, that's a strange fusion of both.