Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because the number 36 in Hebrew tradition symbolizes renewal of life. Despite the passage of time, many of the participants were still unable to accept the death of loved ones. Esther Kozminski of Beverly Hills, Calif., said that she had come to Jerusalem "to find my sister, a cute little blond of 14 when 1 last saw her. I have the right to know whether she is dead or alive." Kozminski was unsuccessful, but did encounter a friend from the Lodz ghetto in Poland...
...articles and straightened styles in an unsuccessful effort to keep the paper afloat. He wanted he told Alexander Cockburn, to make it "cheap, vulgar, lurid, left wing, intellectual and satirical, with a bow to the National Enquirer." The trouble is, cheap and vulgar and especially satire often fade to cute, which is rarely as good as honest and funny...
...have adopted more children than we could easily care for financially or emotionally. Yet we continue to survive. We are grateful every day to the mothers of the eight of our eleven children who were adopted instead of aborted, even though none is a cute, cuddly infant. In fact, they are racially mixed, Asian, emotionally disturbed, physically handicapped, learning disabled and "too old" -but a total...
Although it is often suggested, adoption isn't a solution. It's no problem finding homes for cute, cuddly, alert infants. But what about babies who are racially mixed, mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, brain-damaged, or children too old to be wanted...
James Dolbear also fails as Nora's tyrannical husband Thomas, unnecessarily Americanized from Ibsen's Torvald. His mugging and blustering gives the character a sort of musical comedy quality; a cute shallowness. His tone never changes. He's not believable for a second as an ambitious, willful man, tortured by the demands of respectability--he's just a sissy, a bone-headed dolt...