Word: quaintness
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...time" is an overused phrase, but Norman Lear's soap-opera satire, which debuted in 1976, would work on HBO today. Louise Lasser is the eponymous housewife, anesthetized by TV and horrified by the "waxy yellow buildup" on her kitchen floor. The show immerses you in a surreal, quaint-but-sordid small-town setting that makes Desperate Housewives look like Leave It to Beaver...
...Dell and Mylavarapu portrayed Oxford’s singular atmosphere as anything but quaint; as the Times reported, “The whole experience, they complain, is made even harder by the challenge of ‘foraging for edible food’ and ‘getting berated by customer service representatives, but never after 5pm, when everything closes.’” Though the authors set out to make a perfectly reasonable argument—do not apply for things that you don’t want; do not commit yourself to programs for the prestige?...
...fund raisers who have been with her since her husband's days in the White House. She recently made headlines by setting the audacious goal of having her top moneymakers bring in $1 million each, a mark that makes the $200,000 Bush's Rangers raised in 2004 seem quaint by comparison...
...course, to the Task Force, these facts have little bearing since they are convinced that most history isn’t directly applicable to the present. They would never, it seems, hold the archaic belief that knowing the past prevents the repetition of mistakes. How quaint...
Gone are the days when an employer or volunteer director would consider it quaint if an older person pleaded technophobia and asked to conduct business on paper. "The computer, if you can use it, enables you to stay in the workforce longer," notes Kristin Fabos, executive director of SeniorNet, a nonprofit dedicated to helping seniors learn computer skills...