Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the stars are the same and the playwright wrote the script himself, the movie has lost the play's subtlety and charm. Metrocolor, the wide screen, and a new ending don't add much to what is left of Tea and Sympathy...
...woozy from the flood of antibiotics. Dr. Todd began shooting him full of vitamins, but Nixon was still able to deliver only 16 minutes of his Oklahoma City speech. Filling in briefly for him after that was his wife and campaign companion, Pat Nixon, who made up in charm what her talk lacked in high-flown political oratory. Said Pat: "We're very willing to work night and day and to join with you in trying-in our attempt-to elect our great President and in working for the great cause that all of us have. Thank...
...died, as Nicaragua's Ambassador to the U.S. Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa curtly put it, "of four bullets." A man of great personal charm, Somoza was also a no-nonsense dictator with many enemies; he was well aware of the danger of assassination, and usually went about well guarded. But in mixing with the people at a political rally and dance in the town of Leon, Tacho provided the fatal opportunity for a young Nicaraguan who was in appearance an innocent dancer but at heart an assassin bent on what he conceived to be glorious tyrannicide and a martyr...
...Tacho's sons can somehow reproduce his rare blend of ruthlessness and charm, Nicaragua may see another era of tomblike peace. If not, the country is probably in for a tumultuous power scramble...
...book decided to discard the philosophy of Tolstoy as impossible to dramatize, they failed to settle on a point of view of their own. And so they and director King Vidor produced a huge, handsome picture which might be called a historical romance, complete with all the superficial charm and the vacuity that the name implies...