Without much else happening, these wild outbursts by the multicolored intruder carry a film that is content to " overshadow quainter ideas about plot and character with flashy, up-to-the-minute gimmickry " ( Maslin ).
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In a quainter place and time, the veteran who lost his starting job but kept at it, who never missed a voluntary summer workout and made enough plays to win the most critical game of the season would be a standard bearer, not a scapegoat.
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As Mr . Biel sees it, Titanic nostalgia had a lot to do with cold war anxieties : compared with the horrors of a nuclear war, the Titanic came to be seen as a " quainter kind of disaster, " a symbol of lost innocence.
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"As Mr . Biel sees it, Titanic nostalgia had a lot to do with Cold War anxieties : compared with the horrors of a nuclear war, the Titanic came to be seen as a ` quainter kind of disaster,'a symbol of lost innocence ."
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"' John Updike "'(-- on Fox's Doctor Golf ) : " Golf in the Kingdom " put me in mind of another curious devotional work, William Price Fox's " Doctor Golf . " Doctor Golf, a fanatic even quainter and keener than Shivas Irons, runs a thirty-nine-member golf sanctuary in Arkansas called Eagle-Ho, refers to " young Hagen, " advocates caddy flogging, sells by mail order a clanking, cumbersome line of golf paraphernalia, and conducts a large correspondence.
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The gradual nature of the disaster was also more comforting, in some respects, compared with the nature of modern technological failures such as air crashes . " Time " s reviewer made this point explicitly : " This air age, when death comes too swiftly for heroism or with no survivors to record it, can still turn with wonder to an age before yesterday when a thousand deaths at sea seemed the very worst the world must suffer . " It was, as Steven Biel comments, " a quainter kind of disaster " in which the victims had time to prepare and chose how to die.
