Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie is black and blasphemous in Bunuel's manner. It is not so piquant as his recent The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but it is full of effusive invention and flourishes of high humor that do not seem to tax the 74-year-old director in the least...
...want to get picky, it doesn't have the charm of the older dorms," said Elizabeth Nicholson '78, who watched workers install a window sill in her room yesterday. "But everyone likes it," she added...
This ill-assorted crew succeeds, barely, with the aid of many kind coincidences of plot and blasts of whimsy all lifted from a Donald E. Westlake novel and curdled in shipment. The actors perform with resolute lack of charm. Scott appears to be doing some sort of New Year's party imitation of Humphrey Bogart, an idea that consists entirely of petrifying his upper lip and pressing the dialogue out between the spaces in his teeth. The other members of the cast seem to have dropped by on their way to the unemployment office...
...heard of people who could charm a rattlesnake, but I've never met anyone like Martha...
...anyone foolish enough to disagree, he first applied pure charm. If that failed, he fell back on the ruthless use of power assiduously accumulated throughout his career. When he was up against a man who ranked him, the succession of Governors and mayors he ostensibly worked for, he simply and repeatedly threatened to resign if he did not get his way. Whether these politicians liked or hated Moses, they simply could not do without a man who got so much done...