Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yvonne Dudel, the line ran to vaporous chiffon gowns, gored skirts, lingerie-style blouses. But instead of the calf-length skirt that other couturiers adopted, Coco's designers raised the hemline to just below the knee. In the eyes of Syndicated Critic Eugenia Sheppard, that "broke the charm of those once magic proportions...
There is a certain charm and challenge in all this. The movie-produced by Robert B. Radnitz (Sounder)-scrupulous about matters of locale and decoration, careful to avoid subverting the circumstances of poverty into sentimentality. The Luther kids-all played by nonprofessional actors-live in a cabin wallpapered with newspaper, which also serves from time to time as a residence for a pet pig and a cow. The surrounding mountain country has a lavish beauty, on which the Luther cabin is a canker...
...Spanish government, but its political ideas were offensive to its commissioners, and so the film was banned in Spain soon after it was made. Simon of the Desert (1965) was made after his politics had grown mellower--though not quite to the gamesplaying stage of last year's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...
...escritoires and ostrich eggs. And when Louis XV put Boucher in control of the state tapestry factories at Beauvais and Gobelin, he brought about the last flourish of grand-scale European weaving. No designer since Boucher has managed to raise tapestry to that pitch of worldly exuberance and erotic charm...
...wait for him. It is a familiar enough situation, but it is given novelty by Frangoise's ambition "to live like a man"−to enjoy the freedoms generally granted only to the male sex. What gives La Bonne Annee much of its real grace and melancholy charm is Simon's struggle to grasp this and, when he returns from prison, to accept Franchise's explanation for the presence of another man and of other, men in the past: "It was my way of waiting-of staying alive...