Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team in Little League called "Klein's Stationery Owls" when, with the bases loaded, I came in from the bullpen (actually I had been chasing this cute nine-year old girl around the playground) and proceeded to walk in five straight runs. I probably should have given up the sport right then, but I persisted until the day in JV ball at prep school when, with the varsity coaches watching, I hit into a triple play to end the season, and my career...
...Director Zieff does not make the fantasy of the script quite abstract enough, nor his odd, self-consciously cute characters quite believable enough. Whimsy and reality, neither fully realized, cancel each other out. Caan, a perennially baffled ex-con, basically plays straight man to Boyle as a bunko artist-bandleader and Lasser as the band leader's addled spouse, both of whom are amiably funny throughout. Keller man, a souped-up Bonnie Parker, pushes much too hard, perhaps in reaction to ZiefFs almost laboriously studied direction, which favors lingering takes and long pauses...
...time when The Crimson could appoint its first female Managing Editor in a perfectly matter of fact, normal fashion because she was the best person for the job, only to find that the national press was incredibly titillated by this bit of news, treated it as a kind of cute aberration with the assumption that once it was past The Crimson would return to its male clubbiness, which the world outside assumed was its natural order of business. All these things bothered us of course, but they didn't really bother us very much. When I was a freshman...
...will face anti-trust action when he goes home. No wonder he clings to his lass; no wonder such sentiment at the heliport farewell. The most striking leature of Avanti' is not that it strives no hard to be romantic but that it does include amusing incongruities and cute lines in spite of its quest. Few people would dislike Avanti--it's mollifying in its innocuousness...
Dean Whitlock said yesterday that he had "no reaction" to South House's decision. I'm not trying to be cute, but I don't know of any other Houses that are going to take that position," Whitlock said...