Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, and Hammerstein's words carried across the world the picture of a beautiful morning, "a bright golden haze on the meadow." Just then, many people everywhere were grateful for the reminder that such a thing existed. In a slicker mood, he could be both cute and funny. As the Hammerstein June busts out all over...
...tape-recording interviews with hundreds of customers waiting to buy dakkochans. The replies are sociologically disappointing. Some teen-agers say they are buying a dakkochan because their friends have bought dakkochans. The vast majority, however, reply with one or another variant of "It's so cute and lovable that I just have to have one." Says Suda: "Japanese have always been soft on children, and standing all night in line to buy a toy is just another proof of that. I feel guilty about the situation...
...humor. The script might have been improved by more scientific detail; adults would have suffered, but youngsters, accustomed to getting missile data on the backs of cereal boxes, would have thrived on it. A more serious flaw is the film's musical score. It is not as objectionably cute as that of Water Birds, in which whooping cranes mated to Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, but it is bad enough. Presumably it is supposed to hype up interest, but jaguars are too accomplished at scene stealing to need help from massed violins...
...cute picture and incongruous caption pamphlets of the sort whose vogue began with The Baby and The Frenchman. These look like books-they have pages and a little print-but they are really guest gifts and hospital offerings...
...never for an instant out of character. Actually, she plays two characters at once: 1) Dumb Dora, the sort of sweet schlemiel who continually falls on her face but always comes up covered with roses, and 2) Dora's diabolical double, a cute cookie who secretly prearranges the roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that describes a disastrous blind date. In a rapid succession of hilarious Freudian slips, Judy bends the young man's cigarette to a limp parabola, splatters...