Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maybe she's writing to be different. Maybe she's writing to be cute. My guess is that she's writing for the money...
...presume you don't claim originality for those guys and dolls, who do not even have a word for it. The Greeks had a word-orgy. So did the Romans-bacchanalia. Even the underdeveloped Brazilians have a cute word-suruba. In the '30s, I took part in similar divertissements with graduate students of Buenos Aires University; de rigueur attire for the young ladies was a lettuce leaf kept in place with a glob of whipped cream...
When it comes to past political figures, however, the papers are less sensitive. "Speaking of John Wilkes Booth, history may have done him wrong," Tom Ethridge wrote recently. "Mrs. Lincoln had accused Honest Abe of flirting with a cute actress in the play he was watching. There was an argument. Mary Lincoln drew a .44 derringer from her handbag and fired the fatal shot. John Wilkes Booth happened to pass the presidential box at that moment. Being a true Southern gentleman, he gallantly took the rap for the first lady...
Actually, it's all rather engaging for a while, because Reagan's ghostwrites in a sassy, colloquial style that cries, "Look at me." But it's overdone, and soon becomes too cute and too flippant. Even in serious moments, such as the single paragraph summary of his divorce from actress Jane Wyman. Reagan parodies his suffering "if you hit us we bruise, if you cut us (forgive me Shakespeare) we bleed...
...very much like the proverbial little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is horrid. Like the little girl, it is moody, often funny, sometimes serious, frequently and petulantly cute, and then again just plain naughty. Within a scant hour, it manages to touch on the following subjects: the American Ideal, larceny, age, prostitution, sypnilis, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, et al. That kind of range would be difficult in any play--in The Great American Desert, it's insurmountable...