Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dolly's conniving ex; and Stallone, who as a singer seems to have taken charisma lessons from his songwriter brother Frank, is game and good-spirited in a role that plays too heavily on urban oafishness. Rhinestone, though, belongs to the lady. Parton is an irresistible screen presence, cute and cuddlesome and just a mite raunchy, a sort of Daisy Mae West. And when she sings, "I would let my gentle bosom/ Be the pillow for your head," she reminds us that her body is a statuesque amalgam of art and nature. All together now: two cheers for Dolly...
...Gremlins are not good," says Joe Dante. "You can't trust them. You don't want one for a pet. You don't want your daughter to marry one." And yet they are, undeniably, cute. Four of them stand outside a home wearing earmuffs and ski caps, caroling. Though their goals are to multiply and maraud, the gremlins are distracted by the slightest opportunity to forget it all and have fun, whether that means ransacking a department store or catching a midnight matinee of Snow White and singing "Heigh-ho" along with the Seven Dwarfs. "If they...
...does the constricting drabness of its first-section design. Although it has its share of exemplary stylists, the Times rarely achieves the aura of spontaneity and surprise that beguiles (or infuriates) readers of the Washington Post or the Boston Globe. The prose is often institutional or, in features, cloyingly cute. Admits Rosenthal: "The paper has not much humor." The staffs awareness of its power and responsibility has resulted in a high level of accuracy, although the editorial stance, the Op-Ed page selections and occasionally the news judgments tilt to the left...
Huckleberry Fox, who plays the younger son. Miles, is both adorable and effective, but is too cute and cheerful in contrast to his pained father and brother. Schatzberg expects us to believe that he is too young to grieve for his mother. He doesn't cry, but he does show enough sensitivity to plead with his father not to blame Andrew when they spend a day exploring a crowded market. Again, the audience responds to his spunky antics but as most of the film's characterizations, it is seemingly inconsistent...
...addition, the record will feature a recent song--entitled "March of the Cute Little Woodsprites"--by Peter Schickele, who composes under the pseudonym P.D.Q. Bach. Schickele is "a longtime friend of the Harvard Band." Band Director Thomas G. Everett explained...