Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama tried to prove his anti-establishment credentials by pledging to put an end to the “game-playing in Washington.” Four days later, ten thousand gathered at the same location in a national day of anti-war activity. In place of cute campaign slogans and rhetorical flourishes about “moral character” and “political backbone,” the speakers denounced Democrats and Republicans alike for complicity in an imperial occupation. Candid, heterogeneous speech replaced the official, recycled prose of four days before. At free speech tables following...
...Macintosh computer is the emasculated plaything of the effete, limp-wristed parlor liberals who have too much money and too little sense. Hopefully, when reality hits, it will go the way of POG caps, Beanie Babies, and Pokémon. Sure, it’s cute. It is, after all, just a very expensive paperweight...
...Information provided by Pierce indicates that the ladybugs should vacate the dorms soon. Until then, students will have to fend for themselves against the tiny intruders. So far, the ladybugs have proved to be worthy adversaries, using their best weapon of defense to keep their numbers up: cuteness. “They’re not disgusting, they’re just everywhere,” says Garcia. “I feel too guilty killing them.” And this just when you thought cuteoverload.com was the cutest cute could...
...longer. It’s already Week 7, the time of year when squads’ true characters are revealed, when the metaphorical face paint peels off and the metaphorical papier mache comes unstuck. In the thick of the Ivy League schedule, the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders, cute as they may be in their fake furry tails and big glasses with rubber noses attached...
...Hartnett can’t deliver. And this, really, is the tragedy of the film: Hartnett, the heartthrob of our high-school years (remember him in “Pearl Harbor”? So handsome. Remember him in “40 Days and 40 Nights”? So cute.) has become just another second-rate nobody in a vampire movie. And since Hartnett spends the entire film with his head covered and his body hidden under layers of fur and down coats, we are denied that simple aesthetic pleasure that can be counted on to redeem even a mediocre...