But in a key way, this gentle, nonjudgmental lark is timely too.

“It was almost a lark,” says Schneider, the television editor at trade publication Variety.

He’s reverted to the correct spelling as a sign that the band has lasted well beyond its initial existence as a lark among friends.

One didn’t feel any real connection between the lovers, but maybe that, too, was wanted, given that the callous American sailor treats marriage to a geisha during a shore leave in Nagasaki as a lark.

Jobless, with no gas or electricity at home, he says he joined the aragalaya for a lark.