Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather than signs pointing outward-precisely the premise that makes so much "experimental" writing so ghastly and unreadable. Gass also passes off a tautology as profundity: "I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say." This is both true and too cute by half; it nar- rows human awareness to the single focus of language, denies the very variety of living that words can celebrate...
Michael Taylor's watercolor-and-pastels are billed as a new direction in American Realism. But his people are posed, his color imposed. Above all, his perception hasn't gotten past Norman Rockwell's cute kids and rehashed sentiment...
Zappa the elder statesman of gross-out rock describes Zappa the group as very young and very cute: "Fifty per cent of the music we play is real cute...
...hurricane that would more than solve his cub reporter's problem arrived without prehistory: no forecast, no cute nickname. Resurrecting names and places from old clippings, conducting new interviews with survivors, Allen has, in effect, retracked the storm. There is the occasionally odd and saving incident. In New Jersey, 60 colonies of beavers manned their dams in Palisades Park and, in the process of saving themselves, kept down the flooding of 42,000 acres of nearby land and highways. But mostly Allen's story is a sequence of unremitting havoc...
...wave a gnarled ringer and howl: "Beware, my pretty! Tennis may prove no bond but a curse." The best warning that exists is a Buchwald column about a tennis-blighted romance between Patty and Bob. Its message can be taken in two quotes from Bob. Premarital: "You look so cute when you miss." Postmarital: "Don't hold your racquet down, stupid...