Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Lady, she has presided over White House teas and receptions with quiet charm. But Mrs. Nixon has avoided the clamor of a public person-except for her notably successful trip to earthquake-devastated Peru in June 1970. All this, however, is apparently coming to an end. In January, Mrs. Nixon will travel to the inauguration of William R. Tolbert Jr. as Liberia's President. It will be the first time an American First Lady has visited the African continent, or served as the U.S. representative at the inauguration of a foreign chief executive. After the ceremonies in Liberia...
Brautigan is incapable of successfully moving beyond his charm. He speaks with the same precise and creative tone as Buddy Glass but there is no backbone to these episodes. His lack of context limits him to musings that are Salinger's style but not his content. "A High Building In Singapore" remains just a funny remark overheard on a San Francisco street while Buddy's run-in with the little girl at the lamb chop counter has a significance to Salinger's fictional world that goes beyond the immediate narrative. One author has involved himself to capacity in the life...
...sentimental or highfalutin about the discreet melancholy which pervades his work. Its dress is that of everyday. It is tender and caressing, and if it were not for the mastery that already marks it, I should call it timid. For all his success, I can sense in Vuillard the charm of anxiety and doubt...
...Sullivan used for cultural filler. Most sorely missed is the magisterial Zero Mostel in the role of Tevye, which he created on the stage. He has been replaced for unfathomable reasons by the Israeli star Topol, who labors under the handicap of having to project great amounts of charm and personality when he has none to spare. The credits for Fiddler list Norman Jewison as producer and director. On the basis of this and past efforts (The Thomas Crown Affair, Gaily Gaily), he might better be called an anaesthetist...
...picture novel, it seems more like a candidate for the Academy Awards of 1948. MacLean writes an almost archaically stylized thriller. If there is no sex, there is enough drinking to sabotage the Thin Man's liver. The final expository "Aha!" scenes suggest a weary late, late show charm: "Let's stop playing silly games," says Marlowe, "for your own game...