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...cross-species friendship. The sale of dog meat is already illegal in seven states and environmentalists in Hawaii are working hard to add another to the list. Legally, dogs are honored with the category of “companion animal,” presumably because they are considered cute, fluffy, and generally useful—if you happen to have lost a Frisbee...
...Mary Poppins.” The performers casually took advantage of their feathers to crack out light puns—“right-wing politics” anyone? The Classics Club may have gone overboard with crude sexual humor, but they redeemed themselves with cute and clever literary allusions to “Hamlet” and “The Odyssey.” Indisputably, the performers took advantage of a great script. Not only did they articulately roll their tongues around lengthy rhymes chock full of SAT vocabulary, but they used flamboyant inflection and expression, so that...
...Illinois, where I am from, they responded that they feel uncomfortable if they’re not near a large body of water. I live less than a mile away from the largest cluster of freshwater lakes on the earth, and to me, that comment isn’t cute: it’s embarrassing. Harvard should offer programs elsewhere in the United States for credit, just as they do for study abroad. Harvard students should not have to take time off or work during the summer if they wish to study the lingering effects of sharecropping and the Reconstruction...
...Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism, essayist Daniel Harris wrote about the tendency for "cute" to veer into a fetishization of helplessness or even the grotesque. Writing about a line of dolls from the toy company Galoob, Harris observed that most cute dolls, were they to exist in real life, would not be adorable at all, but in fact deformed and helpless, unable to walk on their stumpy, swollen legs, cursed with useless, fat fingers and with heads too large to be held up by a weak infant's neck. Science has borne out that such helplessness...
...Could it be the same with cute? Once too ashamed to embrace the adorable, we can do it online, in our own ironic way - an arm's-length distance from actually "snorgling" (per the C.O. Glossary: "Snort + Snuggle. Summarizes the situation when you moosh your face into a fuzzy wuzzy smoochie wiggle and make googoo noises.") . On the Internet, nobody knows you love dogs...