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Example sentences for: poppins
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Magic is signified by levitating people à la Mary Poppins , playing wind-chimes on the soundtrack or flooding a scene with dry ice" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). Roger Ebert (who manages to work the odd sexual euphemism "the old rumpy-pumpy" into his review for the second time in three months) defends the movie as fun fluff: "The movie is as light as a soufflé, as fleeting as a breath of pumpkin pie on the breeze from a widow's window" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). (This fan site has loads of pictures of the lovely Miss Gellar.)
Think Mary Poppins in a Lilith Fair T-shirt.
This category includes SurfWatch as well as Cyber Patrol (motto: "To Surf and Protect"), which operates from a screen that looks like the command center of Rescue 911 . Other filters evoke Mary Poppins, with names like CYBERsitter and Net Nanny.
Most surreal act of censorship: Western musicals such as Mary Poppins are screened, but every time a female character sings or dances, she is replaced by an Iranian narrator who provides spoken commentary instead.
It's a trick other people have used--P.L. Travers, in the Mary Poppins books, for example, always has a chapter in which one of the kids loses her temper, one in which we visit a relative of Mary Poppins' for tea, one in which Mary has a birthday, and so on.