Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to George III, that his Emperor was not unmindful of the "remoteness of your tiny barbarian island, cut off as it is from the world by so many wastes of sea." Modern British art, that is to say, tended toward the provincial, the marginal, the literary and the cute; it cultivated nuance and eccentricity at the expense of broader and grander pictorial concerns; it was anecdotal and too much tied to a fascination with human society -- little-island art, not really comparable to the utterances of those Hectors of the prairie and Ajaxes of the long white loft...
...world of pornography. Says Martin, now head of Womero, an X-rated film distributorship in New York City: "The female consumer is beginning to change porn films. She won't tolerate dirty sheets, low production values and creepy male actors with 37 gold chains around their necks. Women want cute guys who talk like real people and sex with some class...
Macintosh afficionados might also want to try Cricket Software's Cricket Graph. Similar to Chart in Concept, Cricket Graph also lets you sort and perform many mathematical manipulations. Especially useful is Cricket Graph's ability to fit regression lines to scatter-plot data. Of course, the cute name is also a plus...
Fortunately too, Danny Glover plays the Cosby role: Veteran Cop Roger Murtaugh, a solid professional with a patient wife and numerous lively progeny. Glover brings a weary gravity -- no cute stuff permitted -- to his relationship with his flock and with his new partner. The latter may have a death wish, but Murtaugh has a strong life wish, and the patience to drip it slowly into Riggs' sensibility...
...everything from Australia is as cute as koala bears or Mel Gibson. With their debut album, 12 Days to Paris, Melbourne's grungy-looking and grungy-sounding Huxton Creepers offer proof, by reviving that wonderful 60s genre of Ugly Rock...