Word: quainted
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...been cultivating a playboy image. His friends say they are convinced his mission is simply to demonstrate the Iranian way of swinging. Zahedi likes to give lavish parties where he showers his friends with "yum-yum," his favorite word for caviar, champagne and diamonds. His wooing techniques are quaint. Recently, Zahedi startled a blonde with a chorus of "kitchy-kitchy-koos" over the dinner table. And Columnist Maxine Cheshire reported a scene straight out of The Merry Widow. As Cristina Ford was leaving a Washington party, Zahedi cupped her hands, splashed them with champagne and then kissed each drop away...
...crazy progression from clue to clue, is an icy cynicism. The detective's ultimate values are never really cynical--if they were he'd be the criminal and not the detective, whether he's Margaret Rutherford playing Agatha Christie's insufferable Miss Marples or Alec Guinness playing Chesterton's quaint Father Brown or Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade explaining, after Miles Archer's murder, that you have a duty to your partner...
...lonely countryside of Thoreau, most tourists, nonetheless, did not seem to mind either the fast hustle or the crowds. Those not prudent enough to reserve hotel rooms weeks in advance seemed content to sleep in their cars, turning on heaters periodically to ward off frost. Others considered it quaint fun to be matched up with locals who turned their homes into "foliage houses"-that is, they rented out their guest bedrooms for $5 to $10 per person. Even the traffic was bearable for true leaf watchers. Said Donna Carpenter, a former New Englander on a weekend visit to New Hampshire...
...RARE pleasure to be able to hear good music in a quaint atmosphere without having it interrupted by clanging cash registers or waitresses insisting that you buy another drink despite exorbitant cover charges. And that is just what Reflections, a new coffeehouse under The Real Paper, is like...
...courses? How can you rock and roll to the beat of a Quaalude downer? Where is the boogie-woogie soul of working for change within the Democratic Party? To produce anything other than zombie music for today's youth market would only be interpreted as an act of quaint nostalgia...