Word: cutely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...electrical technician who was considered the most dutiful juror, called her visits to the Ambassador Hotel a "second honeymoon." But unmarried jurors were not officially allowed any company, and McBride had the authorities peering over his shoulder. "One time down at the pool," he recalled, "I met this real cute, real friendly girl. I knew something was going to happen if I could get to know her a little, but this big female bailiff came up while we were talking and asked, 'Do you know this woman, Mr. McBride?' I said, 'No, but I will...
Particularly women. To call a Hasty Pudding show sexist does not begin to get at the heart of the problem. These musicals, in which (as tradition might have it) female parts are played by men, could possibly make their devices work by playing the whole thing coy and cute (a la the British pantomimes). This time around, however, all the ammunition has been brought out: it is as if two hundred years of hostile homosexual humor have been siphoned into this one little musical, and God is it depressing. It is sad that Harvard is not the kind of place...
Well, get ready; here it is. Many new books are opportunistic. Many are cheap. Quite a few are offensive; lots of others are trite. Many are cute, or misleading, or just plain boring. But Dealing, by Douglas and Michael Crichton, goes one step further. Dealing is all of these things-and more...
...subculture. Which is too bad, because some of the people who live there merit attention. Unlike ghetto hard-drug pushers, college dealers are generally amateurs, or at most, semi-professionals. Some have sold their futures to the drugs they sell. But most go on living their ordinary lives, with cute incidental touches. Like the preppie dealers who boast they can tell you where the weed comes from after one taste of a joint. Or the jocks who carry long tubes as pipes, putting a given amount of hash in at one end and seeing...
...common that Raymond Chandler complained about it 26 years ago in his great critique "The Simple Art of Murder": "The boys [cops] with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one some body tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody thought of only two minutes before he pulled...