Word: quaintly
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...cheap wire mesh nailed to cheap metal studs. Inside sit a pair of geodesic domes previously used in trade shows, two huge Peter Max murals that look like souvenir-shop curios enlarged to billboard size, and a homely suburboid house that is meant to be typically American but seems quaint at best...
...Bostonians, the Northern invaders, left Russellville with their tails between their legs. We'd stopped in Russellville because we were looking for quaint details, for contact with real people. But we found a Pizza Hut, not a down-home diner. And even though we found a true Southerner under that red roof, we couldn't stomach what her question told...
Margot Timmins, the band's the lead vocalist, was undoubtedly the center of the show, perhaps more for her quirky, spacy--but sexy--personality than for her singing. As the night moved on, she gradually relaxed her shy demeanor, spontaneously telling quaint stories from life on the road the over the tea she poured herself between songs...
Kopple's material is unpromising: a labor dispute at the Hormel meat- packing plant in little Austin, Minn., eight years ago. My dear, how quaint. Are they really still having these things? Yes, and they are more difficult than ever to evaluate. In Austin there were three sides: a management operating in a depressed industry and determined to roll back wages despite continuing profits; an international union convinced that this was the wrong time for a strike; and a local union led by militants and further stirred by a hired consultant whose strategy was to embarrass the company into capitulation...
...beneath a quaint exterior, Quarryville is desperately trying to hide something...