Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian name was no ballerina at all (she was born Alicia Marks, in London). A veteran of Sadler's Wells and of Ballet Theater itself, Ballerina Markova floated through such romantic favorites as Les Sylphides and Romeo and Juliet with an airy grace that has never lost its charm. ¶ Igor Youskevitch, 43. had the audience gasping, with his handsome bounds and dizzy spins in confections such as pas de deux from Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Russian-born Danseur Noble Youskevitch, who was an aspiring Olympic gymnast when he turned to ballet in 1932, is one of the world...
...head-on directness of Sivard's paintings (opposite), their flatness and deliberately stiff drawing, result in a naive, pseudoprimitive air. But Sivard is no primitive, as his clear, soft colors, neat compositions and elaborate use of textures demonstrate. He found what he saw charming, set out to communicate, in a quiet way, the charm he felt. Even Paris recognized its own reflection in Sivard's little mirrors. When his pictures were first shown abroad, the Paris paper Combat exulted: "What joy ... to find works like these...
...show which I thought had any merit at all turned out to be the best of the evening. Clare Scott sings a song called "Mogambo Rag"--musically, lyric--and performance wise a perfect revue number. Miss Scott's abilities have been extolled before, and she has only gained in charm and attractivness since her appearance in School for Scandal. To my mind she was the spark which the whole show needed, and every sketch she appeared in was better for it. Had anyone else done "Mogambo Rag" it might have seemed disgusting; from Miss Scott it was droll and decent...
...lays on the hard glaze of the relentless public manner, but never so thick that the warmer luster of the man's heart fails to show through. He even succeeds in preaching considerable excerpts from five sermons-one of them lasts a full 8½ minutes-with such charm that the moviegoer hardly realizes he has just been subjected to the equivalent of a month of Sundays...
...many possible uses for a motion picture camera, the least frequent is the making of interesting movies. Not that there aren't plenty of good movies, but almost none of them incorporate the peculiarities of cameras into their efforts, spice of Life, however, derives much charm and many angles from imaginative trick photography...