Word: quaintly
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...DERBY IN the '80s reflects the economic turbulence of the '70s. Who could have predicted 15 years ago that the quintessential gentlemen's hobby would have become the preferred investment for sheiks, lawyers and industrialists alike? Suddenly (for Kentucky, at least), the rolling farmland and quaint barns which make the central Bluegrass one of the most picturesque regions in the nation acquired enormous value Inflation and its causes made it profitable, in only to invest massively in precisely those assets which make central Kentucky one of the most underrated tourist areas in North America-its farms, landscape, and related services...
...cans flew, the police, including some black officers, had a rough time containing things. Nonetheless, when it was over, no guns had been drawn, no arrests had been made and nobody said a word about it. To go to Mamou, then, is not to seek modernity. And nobody said quaint ever had to be pretty.) Mardi Gras in Mamou is for white boys a rite of passage, and there is something very primal and sexual about it. A boy of 16 is allowed to join in if he is accompanied by an adult; a boy of 17 can come...
...enemies also call him the Teflon President; no spills or grime can stain his radiant image. This is a useful quality. Although as king he would enjoy many quaint and archaic privileges, he would also shoulder enormous responsibilities; he would symbolize the nation. At home and abroad, disgruntled people would grumble not against America but against "King Ronald," or, rather...
...reality of this writer's beginnings was none too efficacious. Cheever was born the son of a prosperous shoe-merchant and a strong minded Englishwoman, in Wollaston, Massachusetts, in 1912. Bad deals and the depression destroyed his father and left the family dependent on the mother's quaint foreign gift shop. Young John, whose successful older brother Fred had begun at Dartmouth, found himself associating with his embittered, self-pitying father, while his mother grew increasingly distant...
...those lapses of character and taste that can turn a serious life into a pathetic farce. At 34, this precociously wise and productive British writer has pierced the intimidating exteriors of physicians, clergymen and scholars. Scandal takes on politicians, journalists, prostitutes, thugs, spies, not-so-innocent bystanders and that quaint ideal, the dutiful wife of a public figure...