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...shines in the movie, drawing a convincing portrait of Ana as a sweet innocent, eager to please but determined to do her own thing. But the character and the movie, while quaint, avoid being cloying with funky, unusual twists. Ana is pleasant, but not a saint; she gets stressed over her difficulties with immigration and even occasionally gives up hope--a desperate situation in this optimistic film...
...occupied by our American experiment. The political breakthrough that freed us from an inbred aristocracy is a concept that in 220 years has led to the dissolution of dozens of dynasties and royal houses. Hereditary monarchies, with the appellation "by the grace of God," are more than just quaint anachronisms. The English should spend less time considering whether Diana should be called Her Royal Highness and a little more considering why anyone should be. THOMAS BALL San Juan, Texas Via E-mail...
...lived in the Boston area for the past two years, and although I considered it a quaint town, it by no means compared to my exciting home city of New York. Now, truthfully, I haven't ventured very often to the other side of the Charles River. In fact, in the past two years, I haven't often ventured outside of Harvard Square...
Those anxieties may seem quaint to us now, but they were real enough then to trigger a deep sense of discontent and unease. That kind of transcendental disquiet has surfaced over and over again in our political campaigns. Its persistence is less about introspection than about a uniquely American strain of denial...
Unfortunately, Rouse's vision was so influential that it eventually took on an anesthetizing quality of its own. The restored warehouses, quaint specialty shops, cookie stations and sidewalk jugglers came to seem as artificial and cliched as the suburban malls they were intended to compete with. But Rouse, who died last week at 81, wrought more changes and brought more hope to the American city than any builder...