Word: cutely
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...Jingles? Say, isn't that a dangerously silly name for a character taking part in a bold exercise in terror? Especially when he's a cute widdle mousey? Well, Stephen King's The Green Mile is an unusual book, and not just because it is being published serially, in 19th century fashion, with the first installment having hit bookstores in March and new volumes following monthly. As risky as any publishing venture that involves Stephen King's name in almost 200-point type--which is to say not so risky at all--The Green Mile has become a publishing sensation...
...often contrived angles or other devices go too far: yes, subtitles in a night club are cute, but, no, freeze-framing things to let the narrator slap on unnecessary description...
...first and sophomore years of high school, I did all kinds of exciting things. I participated in archaeological digs, studied German in a small town in Austria and helped gather data for a study on plant life and mammals (shrews, rats and mice, more specifically--they really are cute, despite what some people may say) on an island off the coast of France. But then I got the strange idea that I had to spend my summers finding out what I might want to do "later...
...that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less. Once, just a few decades ago, women were expected to be sex objects while men were, in psychologist Herb Goldberg's phrase, "success objects." The pretty nurse landed the doctor; cute cocktail waitresses were known to snag bankers and lawyers...
...else of any benefit ever comes of Whitewater, at least maybe, at long merciful last, you in the media will finally stop hanging -gate on the end of everything from jaywalking to capital murder (Billygate, contra-gate, Irangate, travelgate, skategate, ad nauseam). First, though, we have to find a cute replacement that you can cement yourselves to for the next half-century or so. Let's see: "Whitebilly" (nah)..."travelwater" (ugh). I despair. ERIC POOLE Londonderry, New Hampshire Via E-mail