Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.
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Gemma Tarlach,
Discover Magazine,
20 Apr. 2017
Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
Gender-flipping a few genre tropes — like showing the guy as the klutz and having the girl chase him down to proclaim her love — no longer passes for subversive.
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Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
While one side of the frame shows Pia racing to meet her mother at the bank, conveying her struggle as a hapless klutz, the other half displays a henna ceremony interstitial, elegantly establishing the beauty of tradition and community.
The appearance of lumps, wart-like growths, or open sores that don't heal within a few weeks is also a significant sign.
—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2025
However, during a physical provided by the WTA, the governing body of women’s tennis, the following year, another doctor encouraged Dabrowski to get the lump scanned.
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