Word: charme
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...throne made Elizabeth no less approachable. As mother to the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, she schooled them in such ladylike arts as dancing and drawing. As wife to the shy and stammering King, she encouraged him through his speeches and put him at ease with her outgoing charm. Dressed often in flamboyant wide-brimmed hats, Britain's first commoner Queen in almost four centuries never stood on ceremony. "She came into royalty from the outside," remembered an old friend, "and she brought a naturalness and spontaneity that are trained out of royalty...
...also the peak. But if "Unfaithfully Yours," "Micki and Maude," "Best Defense," "Like Father, Like Son" and 1988's "Arthur 2: On the Rocks" were not the stuff of a lifetime achievement award, Moore continued to deliver what he did best - an always-funny mix of the underdog charm and comedic frustration of a little man trying to get his in a big dog's world...
...Best Budget Meal: Ristorante Tre Galline, Via Bellezia 37, tel. 436 6553. With its homey wood-paneled charm and all the best local cuisine, this restaurant offers a taste of how people have been eating in the Piedmont region for centuries. Both antipasti and desserts are rolled out from the kitchen to your table. Try the fowl for your main course. Add a local Barbera wine and your bill will come to under €40 a head...
...Lithgow's J.J. is a plausible bad guy, though less potent than Lancaster's. Lithgow, his soft lankiness worlds removed from Lancaster's coiled muscularity, puts surface charm on the scoundrel. He smiles, he effuses, he sings. This J.J. enjoys his venality, his sacred-monstrosity (it's good to be the king of the night); Lancaster's J.J. is rigid, watchful, a calculating machine, a new species - the prototype post-human. Something in Lithgow's J.J. wants to be loved, whereas Lancaster's J.J. simply is what he does. (Motivation? That's for infomercial spielers.) The difference...
...result has been to make Klee look both omnipresent and rather a whimsical bore. He has to be rediscovered every so often to wipe away the resentment the kiddies (now grown up) feel against his charm, wit, flyaway fantasy and all the rest. He is forever going out of style and then being dragged back into it by this or that exhibition. People have to be reminded how important an artist he was in his time, on a level with figures who now seem more formidable (if less loved) presences in the history books, such as the architect Walter Gropius...