Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blinks. Furthermore, he stands a mere 5 ft. 1 in., weighs less than 70 Ibs., and talks in a squeaky little voice that sounds as if it came from a nine-year-old boy. It does. It comes from a nine-year-old boy so charming, cuddly, cunning, cute and competent that sometime this year, if he can manage not to grow a long red beard, he will probably become the most successful kid star of the era: a male Shirley Temple...
...learn something about life from comic books. But not everything. After bringing up father, the boy develops romantic complications of his own, and he talks them over with the old man in a scene so sly that it doesn't really matter if it's much too cute...
...Cute & Dirty? From California to Connecticut. Mallery has scouted scores of schools to publicize pioneering ventures in everything from astronautics to paleontology. At the Miquon School near Philadelphia, for example, he found a remarkable math program in which expert teachers set up "actual experiences of discovery" and math becomes almost a spoken language. In one rapid-fire dialogue. Mallery records a class of fourth-graders wildly multiplying not just numbers, but numbers that stand for adjectives in a code. Teacher: "Someone is cute and dirty-who is it?" Cute is 5. dirty 13; multiplied they are 65, the digits...
...earlier scenes, however, the low jinks are vigorous and apropos. Genet has a gruesomely pictorial sense of humor ("Is the archbishop dead?"-"I hope so. His head is tied to the handlebars of a little boy's bicycle") and Scenarist Ben Maddow has a cute wit of his own ("The world is full of whores, but a good bookkeeper is hard to find"). Too often, unhappily, the film is cute where the play was poetic, too often Director Joseph Strick permits his performers to natter what they are intended to intone. But moments of lurid lyricism survive, and vestiges...
...Kill a Mockingbird. The Pulitzer Prize novel by Harper Lee, which was always just a mite too cute for words, has been made into a cinemelodrama of remarkable charm-some of it supplied by the hero (Gregory Peck), most of it by three gumptious young 'uns (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna...