Word: quaintly
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Down below sit the houses so often touted on tourbooks and travel brochures, with picturesque stone walls and neat, well-kept shutters. If they were as authentic as the literature promises, they would contain quaint furniture, a wood-burning stove, maybe a kerosene lamp...
...voters of New Hampshire play an odd role in the American political drama. Holding the first primary, the tiny state with relatively few minorities exercises a quaint, disproportionate fascination for the media and the rest of the country. The tryout in New Hampshire focuses the process and tests the scripts. New Hampshire voters relish their role as a sort of Council of the Wise. They choose their candidates with the care that others reserve for selecting a heart surgeon...
...idea that rivalry between British and American Macbeths could stir their New York City partisans to murderous riot seems almost unimaginably quaint. But in his witty and poignant evocation of the madness of 1849, TWO SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS, playwright Richard Nelson slyly suggests parallels to our era's battles over supposed Eurocentric cultural imperialism. The play's underlying debate: Is art universal, or does it belong exclusively to its nation of origin? Nelson touches on these matters in glittering moments rather than digging in with Shavian relentlessness. He focuses on three actors: William Charles Macready (Brian Bedford), the English Macbeth...
...good deal of hypocrisy in this anti- Washington chatter. Much of it comes from politicians and journalists who have spent most of their adult lives in Washington and wouldn't care to live anywhere else. They are not rushing to West Virginia themselves, except for the occasional quaint rustic weekend. But they can take comfort that public servants at the Bureau of the Public Debt, at least, have escaped the perils of inside-the-Beltway insularity...
...Bina's creations after the show would get a 30 percent discount--just tonight and only for us. The staged exotica, the announcer repeatedly exclaimed, were made in India and handcrafted by refugee artisans from Afghanistan and Iran--I suppose the skills of indigenous Indian craftsman are not quaint or exotic enough to make it to an international fashion show these days...