Word: small-town
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...ancient ones. His centuries-old Count Dracula has the sepulchral poignancy of a majestic senior citizen doomed to play the vampire yet determined to play it to the hilt. And Welles sounds hokiest, and farthest from his own prodigious, wandering youth, when imitating the thin, whiny timbre of small-town America's young men in such period pieces as "I'm a Fool," "Seventeen," "Ah, Wilderness!" and "The Magnificent Ambersons." To hear him grow, and grow old, in a single hour, listen to his Edmond Dantes. The immature, innocent tones are tortured out of him; as he withers in prison...
...Thiebaud [ART, July 16], I was stopped by a word very fitting but never before imagined. In describing Thiebaud's painting of pies, Hughes wrote of "coconut icing soft and fluffy as a baby angel's wingpits." Your critic outdid himself with that one. As a columnist for a small-town newspaper, I appreciate the need for a word that really fits. I've made up a few, but wingpits conjures up a physical tickle. Hughes is a treasure. JEANNE FRESHWATER Nehalem...
...course, the vicious intrusiveness of small-town gossips has also been an oppression - and the traditional reason why small-town people with talent and brains have fled to the big city...
...following days offer gentle climbs to passes with views of snow-capped peaks, visits to historic shrines and stays at more inns, some now museums. We buy cheap sushi lunches at small-town supermarkets. Each evening, stone lanterns, which once marked village boundaries, are lit to signal the day's end. Summits are adorned with stones carved with haiku, such as this passage left by Princess Kazonomiya in 1864 on her way to an arranged marriage, escorted by a retinue of 10,000: "As we rush through the pass I look back towards the capital and ponder the transience...
...There she and her lawyer husband have raised a family, and Mann has carried out the duties of wife and mother with the fixed concentration visible in all her art. Till the children left home, she focused her camera on her immediate periphery--the encircling mountains, her rural and small-town neighbors, her parents, her handsome husband and her son and two daughters...