Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COUNTRY MUSIC AT ITS WORST IS like Marlboro Country, peopled with pseudo cowboys in tight jeans, ten-gallon hats and boots made from cute animals. One senses a moral cancer beneath the surface: the all-American spirit of the music, far from including all Americans, actually seems a form of exclusion for people and issues. For years, the androgynous singer k.d. lang was locked out of main-stream country. Garth Brooks caught flak for a video that dared deal with domestic violence...
...Going to Get Cute, Lose Weight. There's a reason why the Good Lord in his wisdom did not endow the elephant with a sense of whimsy. A person could get crushed by a large creature's attempts to trip the light fantastic. That's pretty much the way Toys leaves you: flattened, bruised and whimpering...
Precisely because of this embarrassing possibility, the Navy assigns Lieut. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise, proving again that a really cute guy can also act really acutely) to defend them at their court-martial. Kaffee's life is all softball, brewskies and smart remarks -- evasions of his grownup responsibilities, his large lawyerly talents and the long shadow of his great- man father. To him, principles are merely things that interfere with cozy plea bargains. He is, in fact -- neat balance here -- an upmarket version of this case's victim, a goof-off in need of some kind of Code Red himself...
...They don't look like the cute squirrels that you have to entice to come to you," says Ana Markovic '96. "They just jump...
...They have this cute little noise they make, kind of like a trill," Baker says. "Of course, the big ones, the toms, do gobble...