Word: charme
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Perhaps this will clear things up. Much of his charisma stems from the fact that, though his name isn’t in lights, David comes off like a bona fide, A-list star. Everything from his boyish charm and stammering self-effacement to his hawkish concern about which of his quotes are and are not on the record add to the package. As does the number of people who fell comfortably into the role of unofficial press agent when asked to describe their close friend. “I think performing on stage helps me to not perform when...
...bildungsroman tossed in. More Tom Sawyer than Huckleberry Finn, with the accent on a soft center rather than on gritty harder edges, the formerly "re-educated" Dai Sijie's first novel?a best seller in France?is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic fine-meshed net over the whole of China...
...something to do with over-consumption of resources and the unsustainable lifestyle of man. And yet, the show’s point isn’t quite the point. Every plot twist is an opportunity to mock a theatrical device or style of theater. Urinetown is possessed of such charm and generates such tremendous good will that even old jokes like the deliberate misunderstanding of idiomatic language seem fresh and welcome
...charm of the first Star Wars movies was the murkiness of these new worlds and the inability of the camera to do justice to them—there was so much that seemed just outside the frame. These movies were not spectacular, but palpable. The cantina scene in the original Star Wars is beloved not for its marvelous vistas, but for its seediness and its character and its suggestion of colliding worlds and species. The bicycles-across-the-moon scene in E.T. has a magical simplicity. Now filmmakers have the power to cram anything they want into the frame. Imagine...
...Babe Ruth, whom he called a "second father"; of a heart attack; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. Ruth noticed Kelly one day as the three-year-old was playing catch with his dad in Manhattan's Riverside Park. For the next decade, "Little Ray" was a bench-warming lucky charm for the Yankees...