Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After reading your Essay on Mary Tyler Moore, a friend telephoned me to ask how I felt about my puppets becoming part of the language. I couldn't be happier (or more flattered) with your choice of "Kuklapolitan" to describe the charm and innocence of MTM. I shall miss those good friends who do bear a resemblance to Kukla's troupe (I've always thought) in their love and respect for each other...
...grasp the same light-handed spirit. Marlene Jobert as Nelly may be a little too refined for a post office clerk, and Gerard Depardieu as Pierre may be low-keyed to the point of occasional inaudibility: but both, along with Dominique Labourier as the wife, give performances of great charm...
...drawing room and the racing paddock, and Vida Phillimore (Rosemary Harris), a playful past mistress of the chaise longue. Cynthia has become engaged to the divorced Mr. Phillimore (Stephen Collins), a man as stiff as the judicial bench over which he presides. Vida is on the prowl for the charm-charged divorced Mr. Karslake...
Major hit musicals rarely attract cult followings. Everybody enjoys them. But in the semi-hit ranks, certain shows acquire ardent admirers who tend to feel that their pet musical has certain special qualities that the general audience does not fully appreciate It may be the tuneful charm or sophistication of the score or the sentiments expressed in the book, but such a play becomes a kind of collector's item for theatrical cognoscenti...
...much tragic as it is sad. They were not visited by terrible events like poverty, disease, or accident: they invited unhappiness, as casually and as carelessly as they might invite a tiresome guest to a garden party; eventually they were seduced by its dark and terrible charm...