Word: charming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of Nicolson's charm lies in his candid humanity. He admits to finding exhilaration in the bombing of London; it is some slight compensation for the "dead weight on my life never to have known the dangers of the last war and never to have discovered whether I am a hero or a coward." When it appears that his wife will have to evacuate their Kentish country house, he advises her to load their Buick with two things: her jewels and his diaries. The Battle of Britain inspires unashamed pride: "I have always loved England...
...France, c'est moi!" at Nicolson in the Savoy Hotel. "His arrogance and fascism annoy me," writes Nicolson, "but there is something like a fine retriever dog about his eyes." Laborite Clement Attlee looks "like a snipe pretending to be an eagle," Anthony Eden is "fairly wobbling with charm," Lord Beveridge, father of the welfare state, looks "like the witch of Endor...
...Antony Dowell danced Romeo and Juliet Wednesday. They had the powerful ghosts of Nureyev's Romeo and Fonteyn's Juliet to contend with, but they emerged more than successful. While Dowell lacks Nureyev's muchnoised animal magnetism and Miss Park misses Fonteyn's poise, they give the parts a charm and sincerity which explain well Shakespeare's rather sudden and convoluted plot...
...Guide for the Married Man is an illuminated lecture on How to Commit Adultery that happily has more illustrations than text. It begins with an irreverent quote from Oscar Wilde: "The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." It ends with a pious bromide: "Midst pleasures and palaces, there's no place like home." Sandwiched between the two views is a sprightly scenario that makes this the most sophisticated sex comedy of the season...
...regrettably settled for interior settings-constant reminders to the audience that The Honey Pot was adapted from the stage. Like Fox himself, the film suffers fatally from indecision; wavering between comedy and suspense, it slips between them and relies too heavily on Harrison's fair-gentlemanly charm to cushion the fall. The device almost works...