Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fend for themselves, he reasoned, the shells would simply be broken; the fact that they were thoroughly smashed convinced him that the babies stayed around to be cared for and fed. He also believes -- somewhat controversially -- that the babies' oversize eyes and snub noses would have appeared "cute" to their parents, the way the same characteristics do in humans, and thus inspired caring behavior...
Very little in Tobias' boyhood was cute or funny, as he wrote it. He was a snob, a thief, a cheat and, much like the father he barely remembered, a prodigious liar who constantly re-edited his own past and then nearly believed he was, in fact, a crack shot or a swimming champion. His only constant was his beautiful, flighty mother. She had expected to be a movie star. Her father had been briefly rich, and they had lived in Beverly Hills, California. At 16 she had ridden, smiling and vamping, on a float in the Tournament of Roses...
...BOTTOM LINE: Hollywood can still spin a cute kids' fable, but a film from Quebec gets the magic and fear right...
...nature, at its best whimsical and gallant, at its worst careless and a little dim about the relationship between cause and effect. A recent widower, he is doing his best to single-parent two young boys (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Miko Hughes) and to make good in his cute new job (as the comically ghoulish host of midnight horror movies) in a new town (Oakland, California, circa...
...Siam Garden is the best Thai food in the square. The best rice--it's fluffy--and the names are really cute, and it's right across from Quincy," says Quincy House resident tutor Jessica Korn...