Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he has full access to White House information, as well as the President. But Dean's testimony last week suggests that Ziegler's easy access to members of the Nixon inner circle did not prevent him from being deceived and in turn deceiving. Despite his personal charm, Warren can help restore White House credibility only if he gets a lot of assistance-and truth-from...
...Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie. From the first scene of his first film (the surrealist Un Chien Andalou, 1928) Luis Bunuel has shocked--much less attacked--his audience. He continues to surprise here, but his digs are playful. He manipulates a half dozen characters in an ironic world of distorted time and confused identity to create an aesthete's version of his past social bites. At 72, he is like the Nabokov of movie-making. Central Square Cinema...
...Jackson's Vicki Allessio is the kind of sassy, intelligent woman with a sure sense of her own vulnerability and dignity that Katharine Hepburn played so well. Segal's Steven Blackburn is a role that Cary Grant both defined and epitomized-a man of charm, still susceptible to being tongue-tied and flummoxed by the right woman...
That is pretty good going. This reviewer, now 41 himself, can say so with authority. Hills festers better, though, so let's listen to him. What he says, stripped of its fussy charm, is more or less this: sure you can retire at 41, if you have the endurance and cold nerve to swim against the current...
George Segal's Blume is a dexterous performance driven by demons, Kristofferson's Elmo relaxed and appealing. Besides a great deal of what seems like effortless ability, Kristofferson has vast charm and the sort of presence that makes you look forward to his every appearance. He is, naturally and winningly, what so many others strain so hard to be: a star. Susan Anspach, as Nina, is musky and alluring and, even more important, a splendid actress. Hers is the most carefully detailed, most complex and moving re-creation of a woman that has been seen in an American...