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Word: cuteness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie seems unaware of the depths of Jacey's sexual vengefulness. It's played as romantic rebellion, something he'll outgrow. Meantime ain't he cute, girls, all broody and snotty--just the thing to give your parents plenty of sleepless nights. What Inventing the Abbotts is aware of are all those lock-up-your-daughters movies of the 1950s, to which for some dotty reason it is eager to prove its superiority of understanding. But the goofy hysteria of something like A Summer Place was infinitely more entertaining and emotionally authentic than the distant smugness of this failed clone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: YOUNG AND RESTLESS | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...captures the discreet charm of a particular single mother: "I got a good mind to call him Cecil Fucking Fuckwad, after his daddy." Later, outside of Portland, he hears of the tender courtship of a man of faith: "Oh, she wasn't my wife at the time, just another cute nurse with a great set of tits and an ass a man could get lost in. Jesus brought us together. Then he told us to get married and hightail it the fuck out of Alaska...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...Teaching is funny. Children are not cute. They are dumb, and that is funny. When I was teaching sex-ed to the sixth grade, there were plenty of questions such as this one: "If an alien came down to Chicago and had sex with a person, what would their children be like?" This, after we finished Macbeth...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Gateway to the Good | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...grandfatherly appearance made him seem cute. But Deng Xiaoping was not cute; he was far tougher than Americans could possibly imagine. He surely viewed life as a constant struggle, because that's what his own life had been. When visitors talked of injustice in China, he dismissed them with a wave of his hand. What the West would regard as injustice did not concern him much. These were niceties that neither he nor his country could afford. I saw Deng shake with real anger only when he talked about the Vietnamese, whom he saw as impudent. When Deng complained bitterly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUCH TOO TOUGH TO BE CUTE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...think it makes Quincy House more of a family environment, a warmer community, when a cute furry puppy comes bounding up to our students with pure, unadulterated enthusiasm and love," says North...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Animal Magnetism | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

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