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...years ago, everybody knew how to make a sitcom. You'd get a few cute actors, maybe a stand-up comic, a nice couch and some of those big cappuccino mugs from Pottery Barn. Take a few meetings, punch out a few scripts--then sit back and wait for the Brinks truck to pull...
...intrigued by the Royal Vista's adorable fold-up keyboard and rock-bottom $60 price. Even better, the Vista was supposed to synchronize addresses, appointments and to-do lists with Microsoft Outlook, the most popular personal-information manager for PCs. But Vista's keyboard got a lot less cute when I actually had to type on it. Entering my mom's address and phone number took about 10 minutes because I kept accidentally hitting a key that erased everything...
...Jaime continues his tales of Maggie Chascarrillo (a cute Latina with astounding mechanical abilities), her friends and the L.A. milieu. Yes, all the characters have appeared in many previous stories, but if you just ignore the minimal references to backstory, you can enjoy Jaime's renowned storytelling and design sense. In fact, you might try to enjoy the mysterious references as imagination-provoking missing puzzle pieces that will eventually reveal themselves...
Aunt Lena, I apologize. If I had done right by you, I would have given you a cute title like "the Baby Whisperer," and you would be strutting your stuff on the Today show. But now it's too late. British nanny Tracy Hogg has beat us to it, dispensing commonsense advice in an overhyped package. Hogg's book, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (Ballantine Books), is the latest phenomenon in the business of selling parenting advice to the sleep deprived. Hogg knows from her years as a baby nurse to the rich, powerful (and apparently clueless) Hollywood elite that...
Unfortunately, Hogg uses 300 pages of cute anecdotes, acronyms (S.L.O.W. means "Stop, Listen, Observe, What's Up?") and silly charts to convey her advice. One chart, on "translating body language," offers the revelation that if your baby looks "like a person falling asleep on a subway," then she's "tired." In many other ways, Hogg's advice sounds obvious. Not only have people like my Aunt Lena been dispensing this kind of wisdom for generations, but also Dr. Spock first published it in Baby and Child Care in 1945. For me, his famous first sentences, "Trust yourself. You know more...