Word: cuting
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...when Reynolds trades in his speedboats 'n'-shotguns for those Modern Relationships with Jill Clayburgh and company that his cuteness undermines him. His easygoing charm works fine when crashing through state trooper roadblocks, but in the already cute genre of romantic comedy, it becomes superfluous and cloying. And with the addition of Goldie Hawn's aggressive cuddlyness. Best Friends is positively overloaded...
...embark upon an uncomfortable honeymoon train rides to visit their parents back East. The audience is served up a platter of cute little vignettes of the trip (most of which are featured in the previews). This fluff is washed down by the soundtrack's particularly insipid cocktail of tinkling piano chords that bob around like ice cubes in a wash of syrupy strings...
...others wish, let them march in infinitely complex (but usually boring) formations. Let others continue to allow the one hundred odd musicians to languish on the field while someone on the PA system, in a nauseatingly self-satisfied tone of voice, makes what are supposedly 'cute' remarks but are in fact a series of solid lead balloons, so tiresome that soon no one listens at all. You have a great opportunity to revivify the whole scene and provoke once again the comment in the New Yorker 'the best in the business.' All it takes is two qualities supposedly often present...
...plays a boy the way his father plays a man, with a sort of uninsistent integrity that wastes neither words nor emotions. In a season when everyone suffers the tyranny of the sentimental, one feels a special gratitude for people who do not know the meaning of the word cute...
...polls, ended in a photo-finish. Frank Lautenberg, a moderate Democratic businessman from Montclair, has succeeded in raising serious questions in voters minds about sending a 72-year-old gadfly to the Senate merely because her heart's in the right place and it's sort of cute when she smokes her pipe and reminisces about the years between the Great Wars...