Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared Maugham's attempts illegal. "I am overjoyed," said Lady Hope. "Most important, I am glad for the sake of my children, whose whole future and name really rested on the outcome of this case. I never wanted this trouble." · · · Wasn't it a cute idea to buy a $2.80 Irish Sweepstakes ticket in the name of Met Jing, her dog? But then Met Jing died, and Mary Boyle, for many years aide to Presidential Adviser and Financier Bernard Baruch...
...belles and battle-axes of Communism gathered last week at the Kremlin for the World Women's Congress. There were 2,000 delegates from more than a hundred lands. Buxom Russian comrades in flowered prints mingled with Bantus in striped robes. Cute young chicks from Rome and Bologna sat next to iron-jawed veterans who had stuck hatpins in policemen's horses in long-ago street riots in Berlin and Buenos Aires, Melbourne and Madrid...
...some 19 actors in black and white Pierrot costumes. The girls are sexy. They sing let's-kid-ourselves war songs, from Pack Up Your Troubles to Roses of Picardy. The mood is: come on, Jack, we'll all have a jolly time. On the screen are cute little Eton boys drilling with wooden rifles. Up in the light bulbs it says: BRUSSELS FALLS...
...hides the secret of a successful TV series. The regulars tune in not for the latest witticisms of Gag Writer Rob Petrie, but to watch Dick Van Dyke, a clean-cut fellow with a frog in his throat. He looks believable. He isn't aggressively glamorous or excessively cute. He is a pretty bright guy whose brain is sometimes a ball of thumbs, and he is married to an American icon: the steady, dependable, reliable, beautiful, clean-limbed little mother who has the sort of dewy wholesomeness that every twelve-year-old boy looks forward to in a wife...
...final scene--a disgracefully pointless ending for an experienced dramatist like Cole. The libretto's simple-minded images ("today I went wandering as a bird") and pompous archaisms (the story is "for them that have an eye to see") deaden the opera still further. The characters emerge as cute Sunday school paste...