Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Treasure Island (Sir Donald Wolfit; Wonderland). Stevenson's adventure classic takes its tone from Long John Silver, who in illustration and dramatization too often emerges as merely quaint. Sir Donald makes him properly crafty, rapacious and murderous ("Wait, is what I say, but when the time comes-kill...
...pages, George lopes after Sylvia and Janet. After dithering a bit, he marries Sylvia, who is ten years his senior, rather than Janet, who is eight years his junior. Long practiced in the craft of writing family pageants. Author Spring keeps the subplots boiling, has a Victorian fondness for quaint characters with Dickensian names and habits: necrophiliac Mr. Tiddy, bluestocking Medea Hopkins, Brookes the perfect butler, Nurse Collum, who once saved her virginity by diving into the Isis at Oxford...
...color camera is an awkward renderer of wry legends; it is a sousaphone, not a lyre. Another part is on-location filming-Logan paid too much attention to the location. As the movie begins, the camera swoops down for an aerial view of the blue, cluttered, ever-so-quaint Marseilles harbor. From that point the viewer is a tourist, charmed by the view, worried about losing his traveler's checks, and naggingly certain that he will never be allowed to see what the natives are really like. It is unfair to Actors Caron and Buchholz, who are pleasant people...
...that Quadros' great popularity among his people is not only due to his championing of their domestic cause but also to his unique Brazilian character. Just as only the United States could have produced Lincoln, only Brazil could have had a Jánio Quadros. With all his quaint eccentricities, he seems to have stepped directly out of a novel by Machado de Assis...
When Painter Charles W. Hawthorne first came upon Provincetown, Mass., in 1898, it was a fishing town inhabited mostly by Portuguese who had scarcely ever seen a tourist, let alone an artist. Today the quaint town at the top of Cape Cod is a bustling art colony overrun by tourists, and no one doubts that Hawthorne-one of the great art teachers of his time-was above all the man responsible...