Word: babyishness
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...time a child is nine or ten, he is apt to find these shows "too babyish" for his more sophisticated taste and will turn to space serials, westerns or the shows borrowed from the comic strips, e.g., Superman and Joe Palooka. Today's children get a great amount of their TV entertainment from the old movies that enchanted their parents when they were moppets: most kid shows include a few reels of ancient Charlie Chase comedies or animated cartoons that date back to the 1920s. One cartoon series, Crusader Rabbit, was made especially...
...leading a monkey. The monkey, Rivera says, "represents the Mexican middle class and also intellectuals, not excluding many politicians. During the 19th Century, they tried to imitate French culture and the English way of life, and now in the 20th Century they imitate the U.S., through babyish skyscrapers, hot dogs, bad English-especially 'O.K.'-and all the characteristics of the Coca-Colonial period...
...just paused in the middle of a saddleless, bridleless journey. The horse, whose plump body and delicate, spindly legs were more Chinese than European, stood with its neck stretched straight out; the flowing horizontal from its muzzle to its tail was unbroken except by the rider, who looked both babyish and brave-lonely, puzzled and somehow heroic...
...customers at Tijuana's rococo Foreign Club, favorite relaxing spot for cinema bigwigs, saw nothing babyish about Rita, either. They applauded Eduardo and his new partner into an 18-month stay. The Cansinos' routine of 26 numbers consisted of modernized versions of the old Spanish classical dances (the Bolero, the Spanish tango, etc.). Between shows Eduardo locked his buxom young daughter in the dressing room. Tijuana was that kind of a place. After the last show of the day, they went back into the U.S. to join the family at Chula Vista...
...producer (Reynolds Evans), a solemn amateur chef, rapturously breathes out his formula for the preparation of gumbo. Making her Broadway debut in the play is Designer Norman Bel Geddes' daughter Barbara, 18, who should continue to do well in parts requiring a plump, pleasant young person with a babyish voice. But father Geddes, who preferred Barbara as Amy in last summer's Little Women at Clinton, Conn., has a different design for her, wants her to go back to school-for a while...