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...relationships will continue as before. These include congratulations at marriage, commiseration at divorce and condolences at death. Similar "reassurance displays" are also made on less momentous occasions. A teenager's friends will overreact to her new shoes: "Oh, let's see them. Oh, they're cute." In conversation, a remark from a bore, no matter how stupefying, may force his companions "to give a sign that he is qualified to speak." A good thing too, says Goffman, for "without such mercies, unsatisfactory persons would bleed to death from the conversational savageries performed on them...
...which would be devastatingly cute if it were not also rather unsettling. At least State Representative Harout Sanasarian thinks so. He says that the phone company, a monopoly, should not make its customers pay for this kind of advertising: "It is a blatant example of entering into people's homes and causing conflict between a child and his parents." Wisconsin Telephone seems unperturbed by Sanasarian's crusade-especially since the company realized a record gain of 15,000 extension phones after it launched Lori last year...
...asked in 1952 what she would do if she were one day to wake up in the White House, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith replied: "I'd go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home." Hollywood thought the idea was cute. In 1964's Kisses for My President, Politician Polly Bergen is elected and then, domestically enough, has to resign when her husband, Fred MacMurray, gets her pregnant...
...Sunday, Bloody Sunday (which is the better half of this double bill and makes it well worth seeing) is a master at this art of making you laugh and cry at the same time rather than in sequence. While the children tended by heroine Glenda Jackson are unbearably cute they are also unbearably noisy, precocious and at the same time deeply wounding in their perceptiveness...
...fell flat on its face. It was hopelessly laden with ridiculous production techniques that appeared to be the product of the most infantile of minds. For example, on the first cut, Sun Oh Sun, while the band sang "Bullets" on one channel, a gun went off on the other. Cute, hey? Ugh! The problem was made all the worse because Sun Oh Sun was potentially a good song...