Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marco St. John), a free spirit who sponges on Daddy for the cost of living. Beany is a dove on Viet Nam, and he has brought home a Negro sweetie (Carol Cole) to wed. In short, the boy is a one-man international drawing-room crisis. Vidal's cute switch ploy on the miscegenation problem is to present the girl's parents as prim, upper-middle-class social conservatives who are adamantly opposed to an interracial match. They dread what their Westchester County neighbors might say, and cringe at the notoriety of having their daughter's picture...
...vaude ville routine about the 2,000-Year-Old Man. This character was a geriatric loser with a Yiddish accent who invented the wheel but made it square; someone else cropped off the corners and copped the fortune. Later he met Shakespeare ("What a pussycat he was; what a cute beard"). Typically, The Man invested in Coriolanus instead of Lear...
...study an opponent, searching for clues to his intentions, then outmaneuvering him to break up the play. It can be as simple as noting the direction of an enemy lineman's charge-and divining that the play will go the opposite way. It can also be pretty cute. "When an offensive guard comes up to the line," says Tackle Ray Jacobs of the American Football League's Miami Dolphins, "I watch the way he sets himself. Some guys lean back on their haunches, which means that they're either going to pull...
...another and quick jump cuts from faces to bodies and back again, yet never consistently settles on a style. There is even a disappointing touch of TV situation comedy. A domestic argument ends with the toast popping out of the toaster, a visit to the zoo features the inevitable cute chimp mugging in its cage...
Offsetting that fraternal knife job was the performance of Chuck's sister, Marguerite Trenham Robb, 19, a gabby gamine who failed to nab Lynda's bouquet but caught the fancy of every member of the wedding ("Trenny, you're cute," sighed L.B.I.). An aspiring fashion designer and model, Trenny set the White House asparkle during the wedding week with her five rings, her silver miniskirts, her flowing brown tresses and her Twiggy eyelashes. "You know," she suggested out of nowhere one day, "I ought to start a romance with George-wouldn't that...