Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called rock at all--disco. By the time I got on the bus this summer there was really little left of the original rock'n roll. When Elvis first sang he was a rebel; when the Bay City Rollers "rock 'n roll" now they're barely even cute--bubble gum is cloying. Elvis was outrageous in the '50s because he never held back, but outrageousness has become a style all its own, and it really isn't very shocking any more. Punk rock is just a crazy scam. Even good disco is tediously predictable. Neither the Sex Pistols...
Sexual Perversity, David Mamet's Obie-winner, is very good at stating the hang-ups that follow society's tangled and neandrethal delineation of sex roles. There are numerous obnoxious stories behind bars and superficial sighs and women in anguish; even a cute relationship ending with the lovers calling each other "lousy lays...
...Rice were a dazzling writer, such silliness might be tolerable, but his lyrics rarely rise above the cute. ("The people ... need to adore me/ So Christian Dior me," sings Evita to her couturiers.) The show's structure is clumsy. In addition to the narration and flashbacks within flashbacks, Rice introduces an irrelevant character just to plug his best song (Another Suitcase in Another Hall). That sort of contrivance hasn't been seen in a musical since Carol Haney sang Hernando's Hideaway in The Pajama Game...
...celebration at the Esplanade, downtown on the river basin. Two years ago 400,000 people jammed into the park to frantically celebrate the Bicentennial; while there probably won't be quite that many people around this time, if you're going to go, get there early. Arthur Fiedler, the cute, crusty conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, those refugees from classical music, will be on hand with his boys for the umpteenth year in a row to make merry music. The selections will feature all the patriotic standards. Bring plenty of wine or what have you, sit back and enjoy...
Horner said the winning slogan carries a "message with dignity." "I think it's a little obscure but it's cute," Susan Comstock '78, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, said yesterday. "It's not very inspiring," she added...