Word: cutenesses
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...belles and battle-axes of Communism gathered last week at the Kremlin for the World Women's Congress. There were 2,000 delegates from more than a hundred lands. Buxom Russian comrades in flowered prints mingled with Bantus in striped robes. Cute young chicks from Rome and Bologna sat next to iron-jawed veterans who had stuck hatpins in policemen's horses in long-ago street riots in Berlin and Buenos Aires, Melbourne and Madrid...
...hides the secret of a successful TV series. The regulars tune in not for the latest witticisms of Gag Writer Rob Petrie, but to watch Dick Van Dyke, a clean-cut fellow with a frog in his throat. He looks believable. He isn't aggressively glamorous or excessively cute. He is a pretty bright guy whose brain is sometimes a ball of thumbs, and he is married to an American icon: the steady, dependable, reliable, beautiful, clean-limbed little mother who has the sort of dewy wholesomeness that every twelve-year-old boy looks forward to in a wife...
...final scene--a disgracefully pointless ending for an experienced dramatist like Cole. The libretto's simple-minded images ("today I went wandering as a bird") and pompous archaisms (the story is "for them that have an eye to see") deaden the opera still further. The characters emerge as cute Sunday school paste...
...blinks. Furthermore, he stands a mere 5 ft. 1 in., weighs less than 70 Ibs., and talks in a squeaky little voice that sounds as if it came from a nine-year-old boy. It does. It comes from a nine-year-old boy so charming, cuddly, cunning, cute and competent that sometime this year, if he can manage not to grow a long red beard, he will probably become the most successful kid star of the era: a male Shirley Temple...
...learn something about life from comic books. But not everything. After bringing up father, the boy develops romantic complications of his own, and he talks them over with the old man in a scene so sly that it doesn't really matter if it's much too cute...