Word: quaintness
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Main Street U.S.A at the new Hong Kong Disneyland looks exactly like the one most Americans remember from their childhood, but it won't taste the same. The classic Disney thoroughfare of quaint buildings and gas streetlights has been lovingly re-created from the original theme park Walt Disney built in Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century...
...more like Shriek 42 or Marriage Crushers. To moviegoers raised in the Age of Facetiousness, a dead-serious story about the pain people maliciously or clumsily inflict on themselves and one another must seem a blast from the past. A blast of musty air, that is, best suited for quaint old art-film houses, where the scent of cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander...
...friend of mine," President Bush said last week in response to the conservative assault over Gonzales' ambiguous views on abortion. "When a friend gets attacked, I don't like it." But Democrats--who blasted the former White House counsel during his Senate confirmation hearings for calling the Geneva convention "quaint," among other things--have also had unexpectedly kind words. "Alberto Gonzales is qualified," declared Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. "He's Attorney General of the United States and a former Texas judge...
...dispel my first theory--that the median age of Americans is actually 73. Still, there is no other prime-time show so determinedly unhip. Where American Idol has Ryan Seacrest, Dancing has Hollywood Squares' Tom Bergeron. Where Idol's Simon Cowell snipes put-downs, judge Len Goodman has such quaint British diction you could imagine him reporting from London during the Blitz. The theatrics and costumes (former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre jived in a G.I. outfit) would embarrass an Ice Capades...
...times and the mentality of having an easy life are basically over. It is time for the French to roll up their sleeves and start producing in earnest. Paul Cardona Valletta, Malta Your article mentioned the 1789 French Revolution several times and noted that "it's ironic, maybe even quaint, that people on both sides of the constitutional debate should cite the French Revolution to bolster their case." You should have mentioned a key worry of many French citizens: the "democratic deficit," or the lack of democratic legitimacy of nonelected E.U. bodies, some of which have more authority than they...