Word: cutenesses
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...aged in years and saw signs that my ubiquitous smiley face would not keep me cute forever, one of my consolations was that I was, and always be, two days younger than Macaulay Culkin, who, of course, the world will always see as a 10-year-old. But then he screwed everything up by getting married, and I realized then that I too would one day have to admit defeat, forget about my Peter Pan tendencies and grow...
...generation of "grrrls" is coming of age, with a new view of the menstrual period as an emblem of primal female power. At the same time, some of the sacred tenets of evolutionary psychology--that men are innately more aggressive, more promiscuous and more likely to fall for cute young things--have come under fresh challenge. As the century turns, it could be, Goodbye, women's lib; hello, female liberation...
...that baldness doesn't necessarily activate the female swoon response. It may be smart for women to go for the billionaires and tribal big shots, but in practice their choices are often politically and economically irrational, if not self-destructive. Helen dumped a perfectly good warrior-king for the cute but feckless Paris. Juliet fell for a scion of the enemy clan. In rock-'n'-roll tradition and movies from The Wild One to Shakespeare in Love, it's the penniless no-account who makes the girls scream--and did anyone see Titanic...
...could also be a teensy bit less condescending. Although us canines are cute-I resemble an Ewok-we've got something between the floppy ears. At 48 in dog years, I've been around the block (too many times, my owner thinks) and if given the chance, I'd have a thing or two to say about post-modernism...
...that nagging name question, Liu tells me the phrase "pu pu" in Chinese means "cute little treasure," and is often used, for example, as a diminutive term for babies. So "Pu Pu Hot Pot" means "cute little treasure...