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Word: cuteness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, Bok participates in sporadic meetings and cute publicity-generating events, such as the tea party in the freshman dormroom that he attended last week. Bok's isolated efforts to receive student input are inadequate. He was willing to collect a college-wide survey on general issues in 1988, but unwilling to discuss current issues with the students when the decision-making process is in action...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: No Bok Payments | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

...sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s, when subsistence hunting was an important food source for most families. Bears, these days, behave like large raccoons. They are smart, cute, hungry corn thieves and garbage raiders, happy in the suburbs and virtually harmless. Last year the state paid less than $7,000 to corn farmers because of bear damage. This is a tolerable figure. It would cost more to keep a bear in the zoo. A citizen determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Heroes, Bears and True Baloney | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...playing as "one of the most invigorating and encouraging evidences of the continuity of the New Orleans jazz tradition." Other critics have not been so effusive. "I wouldn't rate him as a professional," says Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. "It's cute; it doesn't do any harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...Cute is the last thing Woody wants to be. Though he calls jazz his hobby, he pursues it with the utmost seriousness. He practices religiously -- up to two hours a day -- usually in the bedroom of his two-story Fifth Avenue penthouse. But even when he's working on location, he makes time for the horn. "There have been times when I would film all day long and wouldn't get to my hotel room until 10:30 at night," he says. "So I would get into bed and pull the quilt over my head so I wouldn't offend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Improbably, Deck finds his daughter enchanting. T.R. is movie-cute, meaning that an accomplished actress might make her hideously egocentric behavior appealing to an audience that knew it would all be over in two hours. Readers, facing a longer haul, may be excused for waiting for the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Movie-Cute | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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