Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cute idea to have Cruise, the movies' all-American guy, gussied up like Pierre Clementi, protopunk of French art films. It's a bad idea to let Cruise vanish for almost an hour in the middle of his picture. But by then the film's central flaw has been exposed. A vampire story needs vampires, sure, but it also needs a human victim to lead the audience into the vortex and help them escape it. Otherwise, the fear factor evaporates, and you get this mishmash: an interview in a void, a vampire movie with underbite...
...made them cute so we wouldn't kill them, goes the old joke. All anyone wanted to know was how she could possibly have done it. What person watching -- and parents from the President on down couldn't turn their eyes away -- had not felt the sleep-depriving, soul-splitting pressures of parenting and worried about their own capacity for violence? But this was not the typical child murder, the experts rushed to explain, not an outburst of uncontrollable rage turned accidentally fatal. This was cold calculation. Parents who began the week trying to explain to their own children about...
...citywide support system for independent public schools. "We want to create a system that cherishes their idiosyncratic qualities, that encourages them to be entrepreneurial and creative and in which we invent some new forms of accountability." Without it, she fears, charter schools will be nothing more than "cute exceptions...
...never a big deal--year after year, I'd put on my dad's white coat and stethoscope, take my grandfather's battered black doctor's bag in hand and metamorphose into a pre-teen physician for the evening. Sure, it wasn't that original, but I was so cute I put Doogie Howser to shame...
...rash of identity-based pride rallies" which "have devolved into mutual masturbation festivals." Obviously, Lat had a more fruitful Coming Out Day than I did. Even as an archangel in a haven of homosex, all I got was a pink triangle sticker, a bit of disco music and a cute boy to dance with in the Adams House Dining Hall. Did Winthrop (or some other house) really mark the occasion with the exchange of bodily fluids? Sticky, very sticky. --Carsey Yet Resident Tutor, Adams House