Word: cutenesses
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...play falls flat. To begin with, a decidedly lightweight script has been cursed with ponderous staging. But the script itself is oftener cute than genuinely perky, and it is rich in events that are extraordinary without being interesting...
...locally across the nation, should be perfect for all ardent Cantor fans. Eddie sings his old songs, pats his hands, rolls his banjo eyes, bounces on tiptoe and mixes large doses of sentimentality with a succession of harmless jokes. On the opening show, Brian Aherne labored through a too-cute skit dealing with a talking dog and an equally gabby child...
Playing that part once again, Helen Hayes once again scores. If she now and then turns almost as cute as Barrie himself, she is most of the time as deft and self-effacing as Maggie Shand...
...films of recent years, there is the sense that the camera can take an onlooker into the interior of a vital event-indeed, into the pulse of life-process itself. Thus far, Disney seems afraid to trust the strength of his material: he primps it with cute comment and dabs at it with flashy, cosmetical touches of music. But no matter how hard he tries, he cannot quite make Mother Nature look like what he thinks the public wants: a Hollywood glamour girl. "Disney has a perverse way," sighs one observer, "of finding glorious pearls and then using them...
...downright dreary. The year saw the publication of the collected poems of Wallace Stevens, a Hartford insurance executive who puts a high premium rate on intelligence, but pays off as solidly as an annuity; and of E. E. Cummings. the aging enfant terrible who can be soaringly lyrical, typographically cute and earthily human, all in a dozen lines. It was depressing to think what U.S. poetry would amount to when these men as well as Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers and William Carlos Williams-all over 60-stopped writing...