Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gnomes, for all its early promise and despite the nearly universal "Gee, aren't they cute" feeling it engenders in the hearts of bookstore browsers, begins to grow dull. The humorous and whimsical passages begin to get lost in the voluminous survey of gnomelife. Does anybody really care how gnomes make candles or what they fill their little stomachs with at breakfast? Alas, like the book's subjects, attention span is short, and the reader begins to grow weary of Gnomes...
...crew of two or three pieces. During a pause between the second and third choruses, crickets can be heard in the background; when the song resumes, it's the full band playing it on stage a week later. The effect of splicing the two performances together may seem overly cute, but the result is surprisingly moving. In all, about half the tracks were recorded on stage. The other half consists of performances in hotel rooms, backstage rehearsal rooms, even aboard the band's tour bus. The idea of capturing live performances other than the ones on stage is brilliant...
...Lily Tomlin's Tasteful Lady from Grosse Pointe. Describing George Ill's microscope, Prince Charles sounds disturbingly like his favorite King, old George himself. "It has all sorts of interesting little drawers in it, one of which has the original slides," he says, managing to be both cute and condescending at the same time. "I'm told that the things that are inside are 18th century fleas." Then, picking up a slide, he adds, "There's one very big one here-horrible-looking thing...
...that new career as Mr. Honesty." The novel is a promising departure for Sheed too. It is much looser and more vigorously humorous than his previous fiction. As a parody of personality packaging and what happens when the package is unbundled, Chatworth may be, as the author says, "desolately cute." But his confusions raise an unsettling question: Did he sell...
...face it, an Englishman in America was more impressive in those days than his clockwise counterpart. Before the cattle boats began disgorging secretaries, English voices were unheard between New York and the Gold Coast, and I had the best. So the old ladies who used to gush over my cute accent would now be made to pay through the nose for it. Young Chatworth gave a bitter laugh as he remembered how he used to flinch and try to hide that accent. Pah! Does the bearded lady shave? Does Tom Thumb lie about his height? Use it, boy. Sell anything...