Word: quaintness
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...reasons CoCo might actually succeed in making it on both sides of the Pacific?a feat that hasn't been accomplished since The Sukiyaki Song in 1963. First, she's great looking: those almond-eyes and alluring lips, memorable curves, that skin. The second factor is a quaint one: in the epoch of manager-produced boy bands and teen stars, CoCo Lee can actually sing. Bill Conti, Rocky composer and the conductor of this year's Academy Award orchestra, says he sensed her star quality at the first rehearsal. "Her presence reminds me of Celine when she first sang...
...bracelets and Star Trek-like chairs - turns the exhibit into an exercise in pop-cultural archaeology, akin to opening a time capsule or poking around your mother's attic. The greatest irony, as this show demonstrates, is that an era whose credo was "forever young" now belongs to a quaint and nostalgic past...
...Like those other mainstays of European life - political parties, labor unions, marriage, church - the organization man is fast turning quaint. "The key thing," says Matteo Costantini, 25, an online journalist in Milan, "is that you believe not only in the company but especially in yourself." And so many are abandoning the corporate track altogether. Eide Dücker, 32, a former sales manager at Hugo Boss, is now trying to raise $2.5 million to open an indoor rock-climbing center in Berlin. "I didn't want to deal with office politics and be dependent on people who are not necessarily...
...skit about big bad bullies may seem ludicrously quaint against the backdrop of teen shootings like the one last week in El Cajon, Calif. But the professional production, part of the local school district's efforts to combat bullying, seeks in a small way to change the weekly headlines. More and more schools around the country are implementing antibullying policies. New laws in Georgia, New Hampshire and Vermont require them, and Colorado, home to the Columbine school massacre, is debating a measure. Skeptics say such legislation is fruitless and serves merely as a platform for politicians to display their practiced...
...lately have been making some galleries look like Circuit City, full of dot-matrix screens and wall-mounted monitors. Remember when videotape was the hot new medium? Compared with CD-ROM art and screen-saver art, with website artworks or virtual-reality goggles, videotape is starting to look quaint, even primordial. Like charcoal...