Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quaint, residential-style Huntington center in River Edge, N.J., Eric Strovinsky, 9, seems very much O.K. today. On the verge last spring of being held back in second grade, Eric has been coming twice a week for 90-minute sessions in math and phonics since August. "He just wasn't keeping up in class," says his mother Donna. Now, however, his grades have climbed from Cs to Bs, and, says Donna proudly, "he gets his homework done. He has the discipline to do it by himself...
...this context, the signs that surrounded Durham--a small town in northern North Carolina--seemed quaint, but not out of place...
Gregory, one of three excellent John Forsyth offerings to hit this shore in recent years, has so many people saying "great" and "super" in quaint Scottish gurgles that one wishes Porky would pop in and mutter some indescribable obscenity. Forsyth is to be commended, however, for his ability to remain bemused at all times, even when the urge to mutter pseudo-profundities about self-respect becomes almost unbearable...
...SUMMER SCHOOL is only one week old, many of its enrolled visitors may still be held transfixed by the Harvard mystique. Oozing tradition and pristine walkways have swayed many to think this place is none other than the epitome of academic utopia. However, a look beyond the University's quaint brick buildings reveals a gaping hole Harvard cultivated in its polished surface this past year...
...Madonna Louise Ciccone, who is 26, and her Wanna Be's, such getups somehow suggest the '50s, now conceived on the evidence of old Marilyn Monroe movies to have been a quaint and fascinating though slightly tacky time, rich in flirtatious, pre-feminist sexuality. Although to her it's a joke, Madonna's "Boy Toy" belt buckle offends almost everyone except the Wanna Be's. Those who snoozed through the '50s the first time around are mystified. Some feminists clearly feel that Madonna's self-parody as an eye-batting gold digger, notably in her song Material Girl...