Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Commercially, this worked out beautifully for him. Most people prefer their entertainments to embrace the comfortably cute rather than the disturbingly acute--especially when they're bringing the kids. Movie critics started ignoring him, and social critics began hectoring him, because his work ground off the rough, emotionally instructive edges of the folk- and fairy-tale tradition on which it largely drew, robbing it of "the pulse of life under the skin of events," as one critic...
...century's biggest flop in business journalism is broadcast television. TV with a business story is like a whore with a baby: it's a cute little thing, but what the hell to do with it? A business story's got no blood, no guts, no prime time. So business is left largely to expert talking heads. On cable, market-oriented business networks are surging like hot IPOs, but sometimes they give us information overload. The moment-to-moment changes in the major stock averages flash nervously on Bloomberg News; the stock tickers scroll rapidly on CNBC and CNNfn, citing...
Among the biggest threats to the future of corporate America are genetically engineered babies. They'll look cute and harmless at first, with their tiny noses and symmetrical faces. Only later will the horror reveal itself, when the generation of perfect-looking people enters the work force with no marketable skills whatsoever. Can corporations survive without engineers, economists, programmers, scientists and other skilled labor? Where will the future Fords and Sarnoffs and Jobs come from...
...hard "Rugrats" fans will leave the theater a bit disappointed. The subtle humor and cute simplicity of the 11-minute plotlines on the T.V. show are for the most part absent from the movie. But it's still fun to watch-plus, it contains never-before-seen footage of Tommy's bare bottom! Who could resist...
...whole village is in on the scam. To Jones' credit, the locals are not afflicted by the Irish curse--terminal whimsy--and his rendering of their sly cupidity as they grasp at good fortune puts a satirical edge on what could easily have been no more than a cute fable...