Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cookie Monster: Michael Milken, Leona Helmsley, the Harvard Management Corporation--we all know greed. Cookie Monster is that cute, cuddly creature who goes absolutely bonkers at the mention of cookies. Just substitute "$65,000 plus performance bonus!" for "cookie!" and you can set off the same frenzy at the Office of Career Services...
...this thrill a threat to the public weal? Since the traumas of the Kennedy assassination and Vietnam, many Americans have gradually closed off their minds to the nature of atrocity. They cope with the world's horror by numbing themselves to pain. They can shed tears over cute-tender stories of stranded whales or a baby in a well, but all too often everything else -- from a politician's promise to the Chernobyl disaster -- is so much show biz, ironized with shrugs and sick jokes. Today's children were bred in this atmosphere. With many of their parents past caring...
Several inanimate objects, such as a painted stick and a conch shell holy to Astarte, travel across country by magic, talking lengthily about the follies of mortals in passages that are as cute and irritating as you would expect. Satire is intended, but the jawboning has no bite. The viewpoint Robbins is searching for seems to have chewed through its leash and wandered off well before Chapter...
This production of A Midsummer Night's Dream's greatest flaw, however, is that it sometimes overdoes its interpretative staging. The comic-book touches, such as the "zap" that fairies cry after magic mutterings, are almost too cute. The result is funny but cheap...
...They're cute, they whistle while they work, and Snow White can always depend on them in a pinch. The Seven Dwarfs are among Walt Disney's most lovable characters. So why are they making some residents of a California neighborhood grumpy? When Disney unveiled a new corporate headquarters in Burbank last week, onlookers were startled to see that its facade features 19-ft. statues of Dopey, Sneezy & Co. posing as if they were holding up the roof. The building is "an overbearing presence on surrounding neighborhoods," declared Michael Scandiffio, a board member of a Burbank homeowners group. But some...