Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half of the picture the mood changes from tangy to sour. The fun's over, even though the director won't admit it. Society begins to marinate Morgan. People stop oogling the cute little animal and get worried he'll make on the living room...
...marchers entered Philadelphia, a button-cute blonde in an ice blue Mustang convertible roared straight at the column, then braked to a stop. "You better get knives, you white niggers," she snarled at white marchers. "You're gonna need 'em." A pickup truck careened down the column as a white man in the passenger's seat flailed at the marchers with a club. When the demonstrators knelt to pray, they were sprayed by a white tough with a hose...
...skill over form. Few of the stories run four pages, and saddled with the first-person plural narrative gambit, Miss Ross has to tell her story fast and well. Details must be spared in the right places, interview conversations compressed into monologues, and revealing quotes made ironic rather than cute. It is, admittedly, a difficult genre, but Miss Ross has mastered it and added a dimension of her own. She says a great deal by telescoping events and people with minute details. Security Council delegates, for example, are surveyed characteristically by a running description of their ashtrays, water glasses...
...glad rags and sent a photographer over to Mrs. Ford's apartment to make a formal portrait. It was all quite formal indeed, until Mrs. Ford elegantly flopped her legs over the arm of a chair. "Stay that way," said the photographer. "It's sorta cute...
...year," declared a third. Yet for all the press raves and the excessive bravos of the studio audience, last week's Barbra was, at best, flip-side Streisand. The addition of color was Color Me Barbra's single improvement over the original. Otherwise the show was over-cute, overwrought and suffocatingly overproduced...