Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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UNTIL THE FOURTH grade, Toomer had her career track pretty much decided: the cute eight-year old from Northridge, California planned to become a brain sargeon. But one day, she walked into the kitchen and made a surprise announcement to her parents. "I said I wanted to be a singer, and they were shocked. I hadn't sung before," Toomer recalls...
...emphasis has always been on cute women," Nishimara said. "We want to be sophisticated and contributional to society...
...here comes the really inspired part -- every 10 minutes or so, circumstances require him to kick a little butt. This he does with a panache that ensures the yipping pleasure of all the young males in the house and, since this heroic figure is also a really cute guy, the gurgling approval of their dates...
...more licentious and uninhibited, with a Spanish rhythm. This mood music then gives way to a series of clipped scenes, each with its own song: "Ze Sidealk Cafe" is cleverly lyricized, sprinkled with stock French expressions ("au contraire...laissez-faire...Camembert") and sung individually by chorus members in a cute, Epcot Center-World Show-case style...
...perfection. Most of her readings -- of notable soliloquies and a few scenes in which she plays multiple parts -- are earnest, better when quiet than when kinetic (no matter whom she plays, her posture and gestures look the same). The personal text is better acted, if sometimes too cute. Her impersonations range from dead-on (Maggie Smith) to unrecognizable (Olivier). There are two telling exceptions: she is stunning as both Cordelia and Hamlet, speaking of their fathers, one remote, one dead. Here art unmistakably resonates with life...