Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNLIKE MANY RECENT American movies, which often leave behind the sour aftertaste of burnt pizza, cute French petit-fours such as Coup de Tete impart no flavor at all. They slide down smoothly, provincial realism and honest emotion buried beneath the sweet, slick icing of a clever plot and anti-bourgeois humor...
This year a note of truculence may thrum now and then in the holiday; prayers for the hostages will sound and some rhetorical menace will be aimed at ayatullahs and other Iranians. The nation will brighten itself with parades and fireworks and concerts in the park, and cute local events like the porcupine race in Council, Idaho. Patriotism and nostalgia will gust among the picnickers. But on the whole, American morale may not be up to a convincingly exuberant Fourth. In the years since Viet Nam, the U.S. has accumulated a few sorrows that, if not worthy...
...dudes, and so these men dress up in pointy boots, fat belts and straw stetsons to swig beer and suffer the whine of C&W at Gilley's, the biggest nightclub in the world. At Gilley's Travolta manages to fall in and out and in love with a cute kid named Debra Winger. For some reason, their parents don't attend their wedding, which takes place, naturally, at Gilley's. This all purpose saloon reeks of Coors and looks like a Shriners' club with the lights turned low. It leaves us pining for more highways and more credits...
...problem that recurs each September is the unfamiliarity of entering freshmen with potential dangers of Cambridge and Boston at night. Cute signs like the one saying "Go Groupy at Night" draw only limited attention to the problem...
Poor Jean-Claude. He just happens to speak perfect English and play soccer expertly. He's so cute that if Justin Henry can learn a French accent he won't be denied the best supporting actor Oscar again...