Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curlers, hands the phone to her husband, sitting in his easy chair. "It's the call of the wild," she says. As a woman crouches to feed nuts to two squirrels, one of the furry creatures says to his companion, "I can't stand it . . . They're so cute when they sit like that." Larson's humans fare no better when . dealing with their own kind. As two scholarly explorers approach a tribal hut, the occupants race around hiding the TV set and telephone and yelling, "Anthropologists! Anthropologists!" The Far Side is not for those who think Dagwood and Blondie...
...girl has got to hustle. This is how she did it: "I made myself up half hour by hour. I rented myself out to silicone chip places. I got myself a weekly financial column at the city's 'second' paper, which got me to parties, which got me to cute guys, which got me to some financial meetings of small businesses, and little by little I was able to build up a fairly decent ! portfolio." The diversified hoard includes rubies, good enough reasons for Langley to set herself up as a specialist in gemstones. For a fee, she raises...
...cupola- topped shingle-style studio that Mark Simon designed for a Long Island beachfront is something of a contortionist folly: it jams all the moves of a mansion into a building the size of a gazebo. But in its earnest eagerness to please, the little building is more cute than contentious. John Syvertsen has envisioned a Wisconsin lake cottage as a kind of friendly folk pavilion: the tin chimney, latticework and exposed Y trusses satisfy the middle-class Arcadian ideal, while the broad stairs and hipped roof make the cottage nearly grand -- rustic classical...
...Daniels holds together better than the movie, which lurches from romance to farce to terror. Only Ray Liotta, as a crew-cut sadist, blends the laughs and screams with a beguiling creepiness. Something Wild boasts cameo spots by Directors John Sayles and John Waters, as well as a cute turn by the moms of Demme and David Byrne (who wrote and sings the opening song). These badges of hipness stick out like a designer label stitched on an old pair of jeans. The film causes no tremors, only a hemi-Demme-semiquav...
...characters of mother and daughter are completely overshadowed by the story's half-mad protagonist, serpentile in his stealthy pedophilia. The mother, meanwhile, is reduced to the stereotype of the hypochondriac nag, while the daughter--behind the violet mist of the poetic physical description--is no more than a cute, slightly buck-toothed kid on roller skates...