Word: charming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robust young women in drab auxiliary service uniforms walked arm in arm with young soldiers whose tunics were splashed with large and brilliant enameled medals. In the Park of Culture and Rest, a mélange of uplift, Coney Island and sylvan charm, family groups sat quietly under the lime trees on rest days. At the ballet Mmes. Lepeshinskaya and Cherkasova fluttered back on their points time after time for encores. Reciters read Pushkin's poetry to the crowded halls. The Red Army chorus sang to packed theaters. Factory girls and soldiers held parties and waltzed swiftly...
...Karloff thrillers, scores of Monogram and Universal Westerns and cliffhangers. Thrown in as a last-minute stopgap for a heroineless Holiday Inn, she recalled enough of her former ballet training, enough of her singing voice to get by. Blonde Miss Reynolds (real name: Marjorie Goodspeed) adds a Wild-West charm to the picture...
...Hollywood's best-selling double feature, have made this picture, under various titles (Buck Privates, Ride 'Em Cowboy, etc.), about once every three months since their cinemadvent a year and a half ago. Like their aged-in-wood gags, it now has a chiefly historical charm...
...Negro tradition, folklore, the early U.S. genre painter Voltaire Combe, and the possible future of American art. These essays, if Miss Rourke had lived, would have been part of a culminating work which she had planned in three volumes. As last words, they lack unity, but they have charm, sense, vision...
This is World War II's best book to date about U.S. Army life. It is a realistic, informative, good-natured sketch of what life in camp is really like, written with a certain cub-like charm. It approaches Army life with just the right touch of hard-boiled banter to take the sting out of it. If a book can build morale, this should...