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Word: cuter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a suit or trade in his Dodge van for a Mercedes. Nor is he likely to drop the role of the eternal cutup. "I'll have the grilled baby chicken," he said last week as he sat down for an interview in a Santa Monica restaurant. "And the cuter the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Eternal Cutup at Work | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM compatibles and Microsoft's Excel for the cuter personal computer's around campus are spreadsheet programs that allow users to crunch and compare numerous columns and rows of numbers are suitably mangled, they can be turned into snazzy graphs. IBM--compatible users will need a printer that can produce graphics, Mac users will find that the Imagewriter suffices...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: I'd Rather Be Graphing | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

These categories appear to crop up in different languages as well. The French call their dear ones cabbages, rabbits and casseroles. The Italians, little eggs. Nigerians refer to lovers as tigers, which is understandable, and as bedbugs, which are evidently cuter in Nigeria than they are elsewhere. The Chinese use the term little dog, and the Germans, little treasure. Littleness is the key to many of these expressions. For some reason the tendency in the language of love is to make less of the object of one's affections; it is quite common in most languages to add a diminutive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Let Me Call You Volvo | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...Fantasia, which, as the voice-over explained, has ben completely rerecorded in digital stereo. While honoring its remarkable past achievements, Disney now presents a film that deals with contemporary and identifiable subjects in a similarly engaging and warm manner. A few, however, may still argue that Dumbo's cuter than Dillon...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Growing Up In Bixby | 11/10/1982 | See Source »

Going to the Dogs. To tourists, there are no cuter animals: cuddly, light brown bundles of fluff that kiss (to identify each other) and wag their tails. To farmers and ranchers of the Plains states, prairie dogs are a major nuisance: they feast on valuable grasslands and dig hidden burrows that can break the leg of a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: To Kill or Not to Kill | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

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