Word: quainted
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...blame some of my embarrassment toward "Southern culture" on television's shallow, cliched view of Southern people and places. Look at shows like "The Dukes of Hazzard," "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Hee Haw." Even "Matlock" and "Designing Women," which at least depict intelligent characters, depend on quaint Southern accents, romanticized Southern situations and hackneyed Southern expressions for their appeal. Face it--no one expects the sophistication of "L.A. Law" south of the Mason-Dixon Line...
Still, Baker acknowledges, they don't serve just wine. They add that little bit extra, making a drink which future generations may someday regard as equally quaint as yesterday's sherry...
...origin of Kipling's ode is only one of many quaint facts in this rambling, opinionated history of the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S. An English journalist of hip leftist views, Hitchens was inspired by the question he asked himself one night outside a Los Angeles hotel, where Prince Philip was to bestow the Winston Churchill Award upon Ronald Reagan. Why is it, Hitchens wondered, that Englishness looms so large in the American imagination, particularly among the rich...
...sitting politely at my friend's Passover Seder in quaint Newton, Mass., when the inevitable question arose: "Where are you from...
...year ago, the Werner caper would have produced headlines around the world. Today, with East and West Germany on the verge of merging into one country, the case is overshadowed and treated as a footnote to history, an almost quaint reminder of a vanishing John le Carre world in which secrets about NATO military maneuvers were of supreme importance to a Warsaw Pact nation. As Eastern Europe breaks free of Moscow's grip and the Soviet Union itself enjoys unprecedented openness, the espionage world is undergoing its own momentous changes...