Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Considering the thudding banalities they are forced to utter, the actors man age a lively display of cocktail-party intelligence. Deborah Kerr is very pukka memsahib, and Barry Nelson displays his boyish charm, though the patina of age has begun to dull it. Frank Langella turns out to be the drollest character onstage with his stubborn macho pride in the size of his tail...
...Discrest Charm of the Beourgesisie, Friday and Saturday...
...Discrest Charm of the Bourgeoisie Bunuel throws out the narrative mode in this 1972 movie, and with it escapes the nice touches, the quick flourishes, that make most of his films great instead this series of disjointed skits, featuring middle class folk with fantasies about death and bombs and machine gun massacres, becomes an opportunity for critics to jump into the abstraction and emerge with their own fantastic. "Will there ever be a revolution?" one asked, "Or just another capitalistic realignment designated to keep the bourgeoisise in power--like the formation of the Common Market or the resurgence of Japan...
Over oceans, landmasses and treetops the Moon now takes her dander through the darkness, to lenses a ruined world lying in its own rubbish, but still to the naked eye the Icon of all mothers, for never shall second thoughts succumb our first-hand feelings, our only redeeming charm, our childish drive to wonder: spaced about the firmament, planets and constellations still officiously declare the glory of God, though known to be uninfluential...
...White House tapes spun in relentless revelation, they emitted a verbal cacophony offending those stalwart upholders of the exigenicies of the nations's grammar and the subtleties of its idiomatic charm. The defenders of lucid prose shuddered at the mangled sentences--the pronouns without antecedents, the flabby modifiers, the split infinitives, the undue use of the passive voice, the malevolent creeping of coarse phraseology. A nation stood appalled that the language of Jefferson, of Webster, of Emerson, Melville, and Mencken could be contorted into such a mockery of America's verbal heritage...