Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Birdy is skinny--hence the nickname--clever, and eccentric. He learns to live with pigeons, sews himself a pigeon suit, even fashions wings for himself after practicing flapping his arms. He studies canary language, and falls in love with a cute canary named Perta with whom he has his own brood, before finally succumbing completely to bird madness...
...visitor begins to sense some of the change when a bus from Wellesley, what the unrefined at Dartmouth call a "meat wagon," pulls up outside the Hanover Inn. A cute, brown-haired girl hops out of the doorway, her loosely tied sleeping bag unrolling all over her arms. "Not too optimistic, eh?" a passing male snickers, suggestively eying the bag. "Maybe," she answers lightly. But she can't quite pull it off. Between the sleeping bag and her uncertainty, a thin red blush swims up over her face. Clearly, life was easier in some ways when girls were expected...
...portrays some of the ambiguities facing the nubile but nervous seventeen-year-old. But she skirts triteness when she sings a eulogy for her dead grandmother in one of the two "heavy" songs of the act. Reed, as Marion the sex-starved, and Rody, as Laura the oh-so-cute, faithfully depict their personality types' stereotypical reactions to predictable situations. However, they never get much beyond fairly rote descriptions of what people of their ilk ought to look like. Reed's smiles and breezy invitations, the tedious explanations she makes to her friends the morning after amuse...
...wife's death. Out of this painful period in his life. Simon has created a painfully effective portrait of human behavior at its most paradoxical: the man fears feeling happy, the woman's compassion threatens to kill her husband's affection. Chapter Two is a long way from the cute quarrels of the newlyweds in Barefoot in the Park. Simon's first success, based on the early days of his first marriage...
Rozelle explained about the problem of selling deodorant and antifreeze ads on the tube for a hundred grand or so a half minute. "And you've got to find some cheerleaders with cute belly buttons," he said. "That takes time." Brezhnev said he could see the wisdom of that. They settled on a date three months later in the Superdome. "A superduper game for the Superdome," said Rozelle. "I like it, I like it," said Brezhnev...