Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andie Walsh. And when Stanton must play a Judge Hardy on the skids, the psychodrama can get awfully wet. But within this familiar format, Hughes creates edge, surprise and romance. Blane and Andie's first chat, conducted on their school computer terminals, is a lovely '80s twist on meeting cute. Blane's snooty friend Steff (James Spader) could be a tired stereotype, but with his all-year tan, his hip-blase voice and his view of high school as a "career," Steff becomes a recognizable character of any age: upscale slime in embryo...
Tammy was no great singer, and Jim no penetrating interviewer, but their TV ascent was rapid. Says their avuncular announcer, Henry Harrison: "They were just a cute little couple that people felt good about watching." Soon Bakker was giddily expanding religious and charitable works at home and abroad, though shunning politics...
What's wrong with the swimsuit feature is obvious in its title: "Ornaments of Society." You see, the swimsuit photos were shot on the Society Islands of the South Pacific. The editor must have thought the double meaning cute, but it highlights what's wrong with pornography--even soft porn like the swimwear issue...
Aaron DiAntonio '88, a representative from Mather House, tried to point out difficulties with the plan on the council floor. DiAntonio called the fingers "cute, but not $500 worth of cute." But his advice received scant consideration from the not-quite-50 of Harvard's 88 council members who were present to vote on the plan. Pressed for time after passing nearly an hour discussing the council's responsibility to speak out on "controversial political questions," the members devoted about five minutes to approving the fingers expenditure...
...council members evidently see cute moves, or at least expensive cute moves, as adequate attention to the students who make possible grand political discussions and the drafting of endless amendments to the student government's tome-like by-laws...