"She's a cute, talented, lost enfante, and I'm tempted to accommodate her, pour le sport".
When Brigitte Bardot wanted to buy the rights to "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", Salinger refused the request, but told his friend, Lillian Ross, longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, "She's a cute, talented, lost enfante, and I'm tempted to accommodate her, pour le sport".
She didn't play cute or look lost, helpless.
An eyewitness told the Daily News that when one of Cavin's friends made an innocent comment about the two being "a cute couple," LiLo lost it and made all attempts to get her kicked out of the club.
As if North America hasn't done enough to wipe away the memory of all the people who lived here before Christopher Columbus, finally, someone spoke up before the "cute costume" totally lost its earned historical and cultural significance.
Instead of information, we have been treated to performances--speeches, photo opportunities, subordinates assuring the public that Reagan is "with it". We have been posed riddles, "What were you doing in August of 1985?" Now we get a cute act, "I lost my voice," by the national jokester.
In the course of the 1920s, though, the term lost its cute factor and acquired the edgier meaning of a creature who likes to cause a "flap" for the heck of it.
"I didn't survive 23 years as an elected official because I'm cute," exclaims Mr. Robles, lost in the depths of his leather armchair at One Centre Street, where he prefers working the counter in the records department -- he likes to mingle -- to holing up in his office.
In his career Mandy Patinkin appears to have inherited the Judd Hirsch role of crusty, Jewish mensch, but as Carrie's C.I.A. boss and mentor, Saul, Mr. Patinkin shook off the cute tics without losing the character's kindliness.
If we look at what developed nations are doing for the sake of jobs, wealth and economic development, we see cute furry animals losing their forests to clear cuts in Australia, endangered wildlife and pristine rainforests being opened up in Canada and ancient redwoods in California being threatened by vineyards of all things.
