Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realized on earth by Sir Ralph Richardson in a rumpled suit) has demoted these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes in time" marked on a precious map of the universe. They instead pilfer the map to use it for inter-period ooting...
SALT was first coined as an acronym in 1968 by State Department Official Robert Martin. Senior officials at State thought it a bit too cute, but the then trendy CIA and the media picked it up, and the designation stuck. At his first press conference in January, however, President Reagan noted that "SALT means Strategic Arms Limitation, but . . . we should start negotiating on the basis of trying to effect an actual reduction." So National Security Adviser Richard Allen started START. Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA, which rhymes roughly with actor, at least in Boston...
...advisers expect him to seek Marvin Hagler's middleweight (155 to 160 Ibs.) title next. Talk of retirement is scarcely heard in the Leonard camp any more. Says Attorney Mike Trainer, who has handled Leonard's financial affairs since he turned pro: "He does look too cute, too sweet, too nice, but that's not the person in the ring. We can't even put him in with disc jockeys for publicity shadow boxes. You just couldn't trust Ray in the ring...
...characterized American attitudes toward Canada-U.S. relations as something akin to, "You're cute when you're mad, honey," adding that it represented "unconscious imperialism...
There must be an attraction of opposites: Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), a pudgy, wily, chain-smoking columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Nell Porter (Blair Brown), a Boston Brahmin working alone in her Rocky Mountain aerie to save the American bald eagle. They must "meet cute": assigned to write a story on the Bird Woman of Wyoming, Souchak climbs the mountain at risk of life and lung, falls asleep in Nell's cabin and is poked awake by her. They must reverse roles: he cooks goulash while she overpowers a pair of hunters. They must adapt their skills...