Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Benjamin pretends to be about feminine consciousness and identity, about a woman "finding herself" in a man's world, but its silliness and simplicity insults all feminists, male and female. Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) is an airhead. A Jewish American Princess, she's not funny and she's not cute; she'd not even pitiful--just plain dumb...
...point where venality is the benefit of the doubt, you are on very shaky artistic ground indeed. There are those people who love to see children on the screen, and they will love Gloria--they will see John Adames and leave the theater saying, "Oh, he's so cute." He's not so cute. Often, he is grotesque...
...father may like to dress his women in brief bunny suits with cute cottontails, but that does not make Christie Hefner, 27, a hare less rabid on the subject of women's rights. Hefner, a vice president of dad's Playboy Enterprises, says she came to the convention from Chicago as an alternate Carter delegate "to lobby for the minority platform on abortion and try to make a difference on women's issues." That is exactly what she did, dawn to dusk and gavel to gavel, while many another delegate was hopping around town. "People...
...audience: they spend most of the film watching and listening to the lovely sights and sounds that Spielberg and his special-effects team have put together. Spielberg in effect is the alien who steps from the mother ship at the end of the film. He is shy and cute, smart and wise. He smiles and waves...
...people. These attitudes tend to flatten out a speech." Political speeches may soon be written by computers: pretested paragraphs are tried out on people for reactions, then fed into a computer along with the speaker's philosophy, and out comes a speech. Audiences now wince wearily at the cute and canned self-deprecatory jokes that federal bureaucrats invariably tell when they go out of town to give a speech. Sample: "You know, the three lies most often told are 'I'll still love you in the morning,' 'The check is in the mail...