Word: quaintly
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...shucks their way along through life with her, but Producer Stephen Friedman's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Leaving Cheyenne does not give the actors any emotionally revealing scenes to play. The script's dominant and ultimately boring mode is half-expressed rue leavened by quaint down-home turns of phrase. In attempting to cover four decades in an hour and a half, the story uses an enormous amount of voice-over narration. The device does not exactly enhance our involvement with the film. Director Lumet, venturing for the first time into Western territory, betrays...
Like an adolescent son of Oh! Calcutta!, Let My People Come is aggressively and amiably smutty, carrying a message now old enough to seem almost quaint: roughly, grope your way to sexual freedom. For all its nudity, it is probably the least erotic musical since Oklahoma! But without reviews that is a fact that voyeurs will discover only after they have paid their money ($9.50 top) at the box office...
...Zionist to many Reform Jews of the time. The diligent preparations for Passover were given short shrift. Discussing the traditional pre-Seder search for hametz (the leavened, potentially leavened and leaven-tainted food that must be removed from use during Passover), the 1923 rite condescendingly described it as "a quaint ceremony ... still observed by the Orthodox Jews...
...efficiency." In the present climate, that notion sounds almost quaint. Equally quaint, perhaps, would be the ideas that hard work really is a virtue, that blue-collar jobs have dignity, and that increased leisure must be paid for in productivity?or a debilitating price spiral. Yet if any lesson is to be learned from the current surge of inflation, it is the simple and indisputable fact that there is no such thing as a free lunch...
...Society" gather to run through a rehearsal of their latest production - a musical based on an 1845 play, Fashion; or Life in New York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...