Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...model to imitate. Moreover, after a silly initial episode, Diana has been improving. Last week she took charge of one of her store's big projects, with nary a question about her capability and no cutely condescending womlibby jokes. A week earlier, she endured, with copious charm, the bureaucratic idiocies of trying to replace her stolen immigration card. The regular supporting players (Richard Shull, Robert Moore) are all truly supportive and like its model, the show is blessedly intelligent. It's still pretty lightweight work for the very talented Diana Rigg, whose roles have ranged from Lady Macbeth...
...team anyway. Kranepool, Ron Hunt, Choo Choo Coleman, Hot Rod Kanehl, Roger Craig, A1 Jackson, Jim Hickman--this is a litany from somebody who never seemed to collect baseball cards. With Stengel in the dugout, these simple nobodies became a dangerous crowd of misfits. It was an easy charm. For these were lean years in New York: there were the AFL's Titans, a truly awful football team; the Knicks, who couldn't buy a bucket; and the Rangers, who perennially challenged the Boston Bruins for early draft picks...
...changed so suddenly. The Titans changed owners and names, and surfaced with Namath; the Knicks and Rangers put everything together, overnight it seemed, and began to win as much as they had lost in the past. The Mets just lost their charm. They won enough to disappoint people, and ordinary mediocrity doesn't draw fans. They began to play like the Cubs, and started to look like them around the roster to boot. And then they stole the League and the Series...
Unfortunately, the entire Symphony is not up to the level of its beginning. The third movement, though, has what is usually labeled "rustic charm". It is where, in a phrase from the jacket notes too good to ignore, "the tone of the oboe is somewhat hazardously exploited." The ending, suitably grand, is not particularly remarkable. The performance by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has the proper romantic sheen to the string sections and the crisp, booming quality of English winds--a legacy of the military bands that still play in parks on Saturdays, Sundays. and Bank Holidays...
...labeled 'serious' in the U.S., you are expected to wear a long face all the time. I don't agree." He was fond of adding in defense of craftsmanship, "Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are irresponsible puppets of fate and charm...