Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told. Vonnegut's retrograde evolution is a cute idea but a literary dead end. Leon allows only a misty glimpse of the sweet by-and-by. The future is not dramatized because the elements of drama no longer exist. Instead, the narrator tells us about 1986, the year humanity took its first step down the evolutionary ladder. The tale is a burlesque that mixes natural history, sitcom humor and the Old Testament. For the Flood there is conflict, economic disaster and pollution; the part of Noah's Ark is played by the Bahia de Darwin, a cruise ship that shuttles...
...Ridgemont High. But most of the gags are borrowed from the more common genre of teenage film. They are simple improbable cartoon slapstick like when Lane's brother builds a space shuttle, or when Lane's food walks away from him. This brand of humor is only remotely cute, and not at all funny...
Fortunately, "the people from Saks were really sympathetic and cute," Banker said, noting that she made a few new friends in the boisterous atmosphere backstage...
Fred couldn't resist a cute smile, and Gary craved company over a lonely intersession...
...very spur of the moment thing," he says, "I just said, 'he's very cute, I'll take...