SIX years ago, the Pleasantville Music Festival debuted as a modest folk-based event attended by 800 people.
Ms. Purl combined a modest folk-pop voice with grand dramatic concepts that she sometimes strained to realize.
During the last election campaign, Bruni-Sarkozy sparked ridicule when she said she and Sarkozy were modest folk.
BUILDING societies, a Victorian invention to let modest folk save money to buy a home, once seemed as safe as the proverbial houses.
The multimillionaire heiress, who once made over £4m a year at the height of her supermodel fame, sparked ridicule last month when she said she and the president were modest folk.
That still gives him ample leeway for his borrowings, from modest folk-rock to the orchestrated opulence of "Pet Sounds" (in "Sunday Sun"), "A Day in the Life" (in "Lonesome Tears") and "2000 Light Years From Home" (in "Little One").
I've heard more than a few stories in which otherwise modest folk have turned into Baron von Fancy Pants on their birthdays — choosing five-star restaurants and expensive wines and leaving their guests to foot the bill.
Meanwhile, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the multimillionaire heiress and ex-supermodel, who at the height of her fame made $7.5m a year, argued that she and Sarkozy were "modest" folk.
Although Gibson said that the ad wasn't produced with a particular demographic in mind, a comparison with the Cadillac ad reveals a great deal: instead of a family of strivers zooming through a sprawling house, we see dads and daughters bonding over burgers; a modest family birthday party; folks on cots, presumably after a natural disaster; a soldier's homecoming.
I would say without hesitation that the most bedeviling puzzles which I've had to deal with in all these years were works of negligible value, artistically and financially: folk art, modest family portraits and ephemera.
