Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together a bouncy Latin percussion section with a smooth nylon string guitar part and an innovative soprano recorder solo, Joel cooks up a tonal recipe that would delight even the gourmet. But the song of the "crazy Latin" never fulfills the mood, wandering off into ineffective rhyme. With a cute Fender Rhodes carrying the tune, there are reminders of "James," but none of its lyric depth...
Panama may be intended as a dithyramb of exhaustion-Pomeroy's and, grandiosely, the American culture's. But despair loses something when it is unearned and vaguely cute. The novel savors of cocaine, narcissism and a certain impenetrable smugness...
...camera might not be kind to her. Her strong jaw, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones are riveting, rather than cover-girl cute. Much of her appeal stems from her continuous movements: the shrug of a shoulder, the toss of a stray curl, the arch of an eyebrow. Her hands are especially graceful, whether swimming gently in the air to punctuate her speech, or flinging back a scarf in an Isadora Duncan-like gesture. The interviewer drinks in the entire picture--the jawline, the blacks and purple clothing, the dark eyes set in white skin--and a one-word impression forms...
...Davis came jogging through the gym, stripped of her warm-up and donning her Everlast gloves. I was expecting, something like a roller derby queen, but the "Cat" was very real. She was beautiful, to begin with--in peak athletic condition with tight, firm skin and muscles; a cute, but tomboyish face under a flock of long, curly blonde hair. Her sparring partner was a short, pudgy guy--and they just goofed around for a few minutes until he plugged her good, perhaps by accident. Her smiles, those of an innocent outsider admiring the strangeness of it all, fled completely...
...most brilliant intellects will display a modesty bordering on absent-mindedness: someone who says he dabbles in Anglo-Saxon poetry may well turn out to be the world's greatest expert on it. If you can accept all this, and see it not merely as something which is "cute" (an expression, incidentally, which the English hate), but as a vital part of a process whereby the past and present are kept in equilibrium, you will be a long way to getting the most out of English university education. Yes, the English do take their academic work seriously...