geacc022%timevx@cit-hamlet.arpa (07/25/85)
From: geacc022%timevx@cit-hamlet.arpa > pg. 11. The Cute Character - Cuteness is based on the basic > proportions of a baby + and expressions of shyness or coyness.... *No > neck - head joins on to body directly*... Head large in relation to > the body... High forehead is very important... Eyes spaced low on > head & usually large and wide apart... Nose and mouth are always > small... Arms are short and never skinny and taper down to the hand > and tiny fingers... *Tummy bulges - looks well-fed*... Fat legs - > short and tapering down into small feet for type. [** mine] I have never heard Judge Oliver Wright (a Criminologist) described as "cute." :-) Gary
bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (07/27/85)
Expires: Quoted from <2810@topaz.ARPA> ["Cold blooded cuteness"], by wix%bergil.DEC@decwrl.ARPA... +--------------- | > But the cuteness of anything, even if it does | > resemble a walking teddy-bear, is decidedly limited when it wakes | > you up, as it did Leia, with a sharp spear at a sensitive spot. | | While using a spear to wake someone does cut the cloying sensation they | first give, but the audience reaction during the times that I watched the | movie was at how cute they were with their cute spears. | . . . | I am not ashamed of the Ewoks I just think the costume design was purposefully | designed to be cute and it distracted me during the film. +--------------- Perhaps it was designed to be cute; but I can think of another reason for it. Just what you were saying about feeding the bears in the national parks. A cute menace can be more fearful than an {plain, ugly, what-have-you} one. MUCH so. (Although I would not credit George Lucas & co. with the intelligence to use such a device. Your first guess is probably right.) For more information, read David Gerrold's THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES, an account of the making of teh ST episode of the same name. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery, Unix Consultant -- 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa; ncoast!bsa@case.csnet; +1 216 524 1416; 74106,1032 ========================> Trekkies have Warped minds. <=======================
milne@uci-icse (08/03/85)
From: Alastair Milne <milne@uci-icse>
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Obviously none of you guys have kids yet. The adaptive advantage of
'cuteness' in human offspring, and animal offspring too, is
that it keeps their PARENTS from killing them.
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Gods, and I'm the eldest of 5 siblings. How *COULD* I have overlooked this?
Alastair Milne