Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE Directed by LUIS BUUEL Screenplay by LUIS BUNUEL and JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIERS
...effect is dazzling, reminiscent of the British film Dead of Night (1946) that resolved itself as one dream enveloped by another. Each episode of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is consistently amusing and often hilariously shrewd. The film is a miniature Decameron woven together by a shot-repeated several times-of the six characters walking briskly along a country road. They are pilgrims in a bucolic purgatory, condemned by Bunuel for their militant mediocrity...
...major North Vietnamese cities, only Hanoi has escaped extensive bomb damage. Although military targets around the city's perimeter are pounded daily, visitors report that an almost Continental charm survives in the city's center. The purr of Czech motorbikes and the chatter of lovers drinking Bulgarian wine beside Lake Hoan Kien lend color to the clean but dour city. All factories and warehouses have been relocated deep inside dense forests to the west and south of the city...
Returning to the South Bond turned up the charm on black delegates uncommitted to McGovern, convincing them by "sort of a mix of our persuasion and their own ability to make up their own minds" that the time was right to come out for that McGovern. "It comes down to a feeling that McGovern is going to make it with us or without us, and the general feeling is that it would be better with us," he explained...
...doubtful that she could ever attain the instant star quality and studied grace of Jackie, or the sensitivity and charm of Lady Bird, but Pat has far outdistanced her own exemplar, Mamie Eisenhower, as White House hostess. More people, 124,805, have passed through the White House during her residence than ever before. Pat also has quietly been carrying on Jackie's restoration, redecorating the Blue, Green and Red rooms and acquiring museum-quality paintings and furnishings...