Word: cutefulness
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...Garner’s performance may lend itself to a Julia Roberts reference or two—both have the full-lipped, hearty laugh and smile perfectly complemented by a suitably charming on camera presence. Though the plot could have been written during a middle school sleepover, 13 is cute for cute’s sake—cuter than the recent teenage chick flick Win a Date With Tad Hamilton and a nice urban compliment to the farm-town setting of The Prince and Me. If nothing else, the pleasantly sappy coupling of Garner and Ruffalo is just enough...
...cherubic, threatened swan’s swimming technique. Washington, meanwhile, channels his forceful yet charismatic Remember The Titans performance, berating the girl until she successfully stops flinching from the sound of the race’s starting shot. Surprisingly, Scott lavishes a substantial chunk of time on the astonishingly cute friendship—a decision which makes the audience actually care when Pita is kidnapped during a shootout with unknown assailants...
...stars of The Whole Nine Yards reunited for even more even staler neurotic assassin jokes. Although Matthew Perry seems to be attempting to channel Leslie Nielson, he doesn’t do it well-enough to redeem this unfunny farce which quickly looses whatever little affection the cute original deserved...
Koichi Iwabuchi, a professor visiting from Waseda University in Japan, spoke about the social uses of cute. Iwabuchi described the social atmosphere of Japan as “very dark, very tough,” offering an explanation of the popularity of kawaii as a reaction to this toughness. Meanwhile, Thorn suggested that kawaii is used as “a playful parody of a patriarchal culture.” Hello Kitty as the face of resistance? Maybe...
Yuichi Washida, a consumer researcher and M.I.T visiting scholar, discussed the important influence that cute culture has on technology. Young women, labeled “kogals,” are the driving force behind the Hello Kitty genre as well as cell phone culture—the market size for “chaku-melo,” or trendy ring tone services, has reached one billion dollars and is poised to compete with annual cd sales revenue.The range of conference attendees reflected Hello Kitty’s mass appeal. Among those in attendance were anthropologists and market researchers...