Word: cutenesses
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...robot with unsuspected autodidactic capabilities escapes the arm of the military-industrial complex that created him, suspensefully eludes the small army sent out to capture him and, along the way, turns himself into a philosopher of the liberal-humanist persuasion. If the irony that a cute thinking machine might be able to teach real people something about moral philosophy appeals to you, then you may like Short Circuit. If, on the other hand, your taste in robots runs toward the apolitical comedy of Artoo Detoo, then Director John Badham's efficient realization of a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent...
...from James N. Bailey, Chairman of the Nominating Committee for Overseers candidates, making a clear distinction between the 10 candidates proposed by his Committee (whose process he extols in two long paragraphs) and the three "self-nominates" candidates, who merit three lines. (And that phrase "self-nominated" is pretty cute in itself--it's pejorative, echoing similar journalistic devices like "self-proclaimed" and "self-styled," as well as untrue: they were nominated by 800 of their fellow alumni, as the procedures call...
...runs a scuzzy gang that makes millions breaking into company safes and hijacking tractors. His estranged wife and her mother slouch around their dreary house staring at TV. Brad Jr. (Sean Penn) is searching for something worth spending his teenage energy on: maybe his lay-about friends, maybe that cute 16-year-old he's just met (Mary Stuart Masterson), maybe the toxic dream of emulating his old man. You've got to act, Brad. So be a thief and impress your friends. Join your dad's gang; make him proud. Buy your girlfriend a necklace and watch her eyes...
Well, as you know, life has many cruel ironies, not the least of which is that after 14 years spent far away in the wilds of Virginia, I found myself returning to the Square--to live there. I could be really cute and positive and say "...and how I've learned to love it," but this is not the CUE Guide, so I can be honest...
...this swirls around the surly character of Joe, TV's most convincing misanthrope since Archie Bunker. In Boyle's sharp and unsentimental portrayal, crustiness never becomes cute, and there are echoes of authentic urban despair in the patter. "What are you gonna do over the weekend?" Willie asks Joe, whose wife left him 15 years ago. "Same as I always do. Sit it out till Monday," he replies. Willie nags him to get out of the apartment and make friends. "I had friends," Joe snaps. "I didn't like it." At the end of one episode, Joe is even found...