Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Golly they're cute. Bodger, for instance, is an amiably rheumy old bull terrier who can hardly stand up to a fireplug. Tao, Bodger's best friend, is a maniacally active Siamese cat who seems to think he's a dog. Luath is a big, dumb, blond, delightfully floppy Labrador retriever who pals around with the other...
...till Sandra gets tired of bringing up father and the customers get sick of a script that finds sublimated incest cute...
Animal crackers, as Hollywood plays the game, is a pleasant, simple-minded pastime that offers few surprises. This time around, Mitchum & Co. see the usual things (poisonous snakes, charging rhinos, a terribly cute baby elephant), say the usual things ("You're different from any woman I've ever known"), do the usual things (he palavers with suspicious natives, she takes a nude dip in a jungle pool). At one point Mitchum is tempted to do something different. The head boy (Sabu), grinning miscegenially, offers him the use of his wife-"Plenty for two. Is custom." Is not custom...
...entire body moves but his mouth, which is usually saying something like "Don't you see, Miss Terry, what a little affection would do?" Stack's evil opponent is Joan Crawford, the tough head nurse who favors "the intelligent use of force." There are numerous other wooden people: the cute nurse who tells an earnest young doctor, "You talk like a poet," the very sick girl, who talks for the first time in years when Polly Bergen says "We love...
...cute little intimacies that filled the pages of Peyton Place took on a special piquancy via hints that Author Grace Metalious had merely written about her own domestic career up in lustful, hypocritical, murderous New England. The sequels that followed prolonged the speculation; if they weren't written on the kitchen table, how could they be so smeared with jam? Irving Wallace gained a certain respectability by pretending that his fat novels (The Chapman Report, The Prize) were based on research-research that delved into the odd aberrations of sex ual surveyors and Nobel prizewinners. Now both are back...