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They think they get it ...(ironies of popular culture)
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National Review
- Article date:
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June 30, 2008
- Author:
- Goldberg, Jonah
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MY five-year-old daughter is now a Kung Fu Master. Or at least so she thinks. We saw Kung Fu Panda the other day, and immediately afterwards, with the speed it takes to pluck a pebble from the palm of a master, she was showing me all of her Kung Fu "moves." She started explaining to me how there are different "styles" of Kung Fu, and then did her best to show them to me: Monkey, Mantis, Tiger, and so on.
You haven't truly experienced cuteness if you haven't seen a little girl give you that half-bend-of-your-hand gesture where you beckon your opponent for an all-out battle.
That gesture--basically "come here" with four fingers instead of ...