Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After convening his new Cabinet, Sukarno poured on his considerable personal charm for his ministers and their wives, invited some 200 guests to special screenings of two movies, both made in Communist Czechoslovakia: one, The Emperor's Baker; the other, Sukarno's Visit to Czechoslovakia. A reporter asked Sukarno: "How long will the Emergency Cabinet last?" "If God wills it," replied the President inscrutably, ''this Cabinet may last just...
Shinbone Alley makes a brave try, and at intermission still has something of a chance. After that, things go rather un-brokenly downhill; and only a few times all evening-as in a charming duet, Flotsam and Jetsam, or some Eartha Kitt touches as mehitabel-is the Don Marquis strain triumphant. A few other times-as in a revue-sketch scene where mehitabel, as a dramatic-school tyro, suddenly gives the hot-jazz treatment to Shakespeare-Shinbone Alley is attractive show business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives...
What the Poets' Theatre makes of all this is not distinguished. The charm that should be so great a part of the play is never really reached. Partly, the fault is simply that the stage and theatre are so small that only the scene inside a peasant's hut seems to have the right amount of breathing space. The woods scenes, despite the set designer's good try, are cramped and static, without even achieving intimacy...
Just Like Steam. The charm of the free piston engine is that it has many of the advantages of the straight gas turbine with none of the main disadvantages. The glamorous turbojet that flies through the air with such wonderful ease is as helpless on a highway as a bat or a hummingbird. Even the workaday turboprop (a gas turbine that delivers power through a shaft, not through a jet of gas) is hard to adapt to ground uses. Chief failings: 1) poor fuel economy, especially at low speed. 2) cost of heat-resistant parts, 3) sluggish response when power...
...actors as a whole are on Guthrie's side, not on the author's, so the results are quite creditable. Dorothy Sands as a governess is excellent, Inga Swenson as Charlotte has all the charm and impetuousness of the not quite ingenue, and Maria Fein as the drunken mother is fine for her part, which should be inserted into a play worthy...