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Word: cutely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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WOODY ALLEN is the comic laureate of our age. Nothing against George Carlin, he of the long hair, cute dirty words and drug jokes, but Woody stands head and glasses above anyone else in terms of the absolute number, quality, diversity and insightfulness of the comic ideas he has produced. Woody the loveable neurotic forces the audience to laugh at its own foibles and fuck-ups. Allen often reaches a peak of manic intensity amazing in such a small, redhaired nebbish of a man. So how does he do it? What makes Woody Allen funny...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Woody, We Hardly Know Ye | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

Blondie's biggest asset, though, is Harry herself. On the first album, her voice sounds like it is always just about to go flat. You'd expect to be annoyed at such amateurism; Harry turns it into a winning quality--she sounds cute...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: New Wave's Old Wrinkle | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...Even a cute blonde like Debby Harry can't get away with that. Aside from a few embarrassing verses like these, Parallel Lines is excellent--each of its 12 songs is backboned but not offensive, catchy but not insipid...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: New Wave's Old Wrinkle | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...sensitive and peaceable types. Whenever anything goes wrong, Cora, like Grandpa Walton, gives us a salt-of-the-earth piece of wisdom and puts everything to rights. The men don't betray the women. The women don't betray each other. If someone is crazy, he's harmless and cute and everyone is tolerant...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Half Dozen of the Other | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

Nukes is a cute expression for nuclear reactors, which leave nuclear waste. The best scientific minds are not yet in agreement as to a reasonable and economic method of disposition of nuke waste materials. Until this is resolved for future generations, nukes are for kooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1978 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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