Word: charmers
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Rather like the play, Dudgeon barely escapes the noose. The second act brings on a wittily cynical charmer in the person of General Burgoyne, who is portrayed with silky urbanity by the multi-faceted George Rose. In addition to elongating a happy ending, Shaw has provided Burgoyne with a line worthy of the playwright's fellow Irishman, Oscar Wilde: "Martyrdom, sir, is the only way in which a man can become famous with out ability. " T.E. Kalem
...thrice weekly, and you will grow strong and smart. So predicts David Ogilvy's Scotsman father in 1917, when the future advertising genius is a wee tyke of six. Dad speaks sooth. Young David finesses his way into Oxford, drinks, and flunks out cheerfully after two years. A charmer, this youth, right out of Fielding. By now the reader is hooked, and Ogilvy never lets...
...week by crazed futurists who think it's going to end up in another galaxy--blew out there one day, and the rest is history. 1342, if I may be so momentarily vain. Everybody should write to (Being Witheld), and to Heather, the Tuesday-night Bates receptionist and phone-charmer, who also lives on the second floor, and hence prompted me to coin the silly disco-oriented joke, "Heather on the second floor," when I called her asking to talk to (Being Witheld). (Being Witheld) is my only correspondent since a Somerville woman threatened several years ago to mail...
...Brecht, Shaw regarded plot as the sentimental opiate of the middle-class theatergoer. In Man and Superman, he simply inverts the boy-meets-girl formula: woman wants man, man runs for his bachelor life, woman gets man. As it happens, the man, Jack Tanner (Ian Richardson), is an incendiary charmer with a blowtorch for a tongue. He yearns to puncture all the hypocritical balloons of civilized life. As for the woman, Ann Whitefield (Carole Shelley), she is a spiritedly fetching minx and a sly enchantress of guile to whom any man might feel lucky to surrender...
...Slew is an unlikely Prince Charming. His breeding was one of a kind, but not really royal. He is the great-grandson of Secretariat's sire, Bold Ruler-a line that shows lots of speed but dubious staying power. Slew was the first foal of his dam, My Charmer; his sire, Bold Reasoning, fell while covering another mare shortly after siring Slew and had to be destroyed. On early form, the Bold Reasoning-My Charmer issue was not promising. His hindquarters were oversized and his gait was hardly classic. Exercise Rider Mike Kennedy recalled his early rides...