Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charm and Champagne. When the concert was over, Molotov led the dash for the eats. There were ten dining rooms, all heavily laden with food and drinks. Zakuska (Russian hors d'oeuvres) was so plentiful that by the time the hot dishes arrived, hours later, nobody was hungry except the waiters, who kept filling up plates and tucking them away behind portieres. The food was excellent and wound up in a blaze of crepes suzettes, ice creams and purple champagne...
...charm of many of Miss Brice's pictures was due to the children's intense observation of minutiae-the weave of fabrics, the crisp precision of leaves against the sky. Strangely enough, only one of the pictures showed an airplane, perhaps because most of the collection was assembled so long before...
Orson Welles, chairman of something called the action committee of the Free World Association, warned a Detroit audience against the rise of a new U.S. Fascist whom he visualized as a man "with the charm of Will Rogers-a little like Abraham Lincoln, but an ex-football player...
Olivia de Havilland possesses all the personal charm of a marshmallow which can also cook. She also has distinct limitations as a comedienne, not much helped when she has to sob about Sonny Tufts: "He's just like a great big long-eared dog." Cinemactor Tufts develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip...
Leonardo was a youth of great personal charm and extraordinary physical beauty which he paraded without reserve in the streets of Florence. Contemporaries picture him wearing a curly blond beard and walking in a short pink tunic while everyone else wore cloaks. He was proud to the point of arrogance, fastidious to the point of inhumanity. Evidence, including anonymous accusations, strongly suggests that Leonardo was a homosexual. Wrote the late Sigmund Freud in his Leonardo da Vinci: "In a period where there was a constant struggle between riotous licentiousness and gloomy asceticism, Leonardo presented an example of cool sexual rejection...