Word: charming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute press conference-staged by the public relations firm of Hill & Knowltoa and telecast live from Manhattan's' Plaza Hotel - Svetlana maintained a sweet Slavic charm and a rosy-cheeked, auburn-haired innocence, despite her first exposure to a free press and although one reporter was frisked by private detectives on the way in. She also displayed a dedication to liberty that stood in sharp if glossy contrast to her family background. More surprising was her spirited defense of her father-a demonstration that even a dictator with the blood of some 9,000,000 kulaks and political...
Lindsay Crouse and Phoebe Russell, as Burnering's daughters get by with broad, fuzzy portrayals of troubled youth, and a good measure of charm. But the relationship between the two, and their differences, remain as unclear in the production as in the play...
...Town, written in 1944 by Betty Comden; Adolph Green, and Leonard Bernstein as a fancy-free and slightly before-its-time first-effort, has settled down into comfortable period-piecedom. Quincy House has revived this product from the age of Chiquita Banana and has missed little of the charm of a show about three rube sailors who fall in love with three city girls while on 24-hour leave in New York...
Moscow, which they fear will reduce them to second-class status, to their misgivings over Viet Nam. But the Vice President acquitted himself with wit, charm and persuasiveness...
Even a first-rate cast cannot help Millie from ultimately being thoroughly maudlin. Julie Andrews' star bright charm and prodigious energies cannot make a hit all by themselves, nor can Beatrice Lillie's still wonderful deadpan drolleries. Carol Channing, in a cameo role, only indicates that she is better as a living Dolly than as an overgrown Jazz Baby. The picture's basic problem, however, lies not with its talent but with its target. Satire is never any stronger than the host it feeds upon; by lampooning an overdone era, the creators of the film have made...