Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...omits no fact or artifact from its survey of a decade. Pop songs, love beads, Jack-and-Jackie beachballs, deranged assassins-all are strip-mined for significance. The performers (excepting Reed Birney as a gentle, doomed aristocrat and Natalija Nogulich as Danilo's one stalwart love) display little charm, conviction or screen presence. But the intensity of Tesich's obsessions can ennoble his clichés about love of family, friends and country. And Penn, a poet of domestic sexual tension, stages illuminating vignettes to express what the script or actors cannot: a spasm of violence at Danilo...
...They say they're tired of wearing little elf suits and funny hats. I say the outfits add atmosphere to this awful, boring place. They also want to be called 'recreational engineers.' Where's the charm in that? And they don't want to work on holidays. Do they think I enjoy flying around on Christmas...
...them live together. If human, cats might play solitaire, but they would never sit around with the gang and a few six-packs watching Monday Night Football. Their aloof singularity lies at the heart of human fascination with the animal. The cat's wild ways endure and charm. In Japan the cat is called "the tiger that eats from the hand." In her authoritative compendium The Cat, Author Muriel Beadle postulates that the feline's alliance with humans is a dramatic biological decision to swap solitary life in the wild for "the company...
...BEAT Kreisler playing Kreisler. Maybe he developed his individuality from giving up the violin in his teens, joining the army and studying to become a doctor. Maybe it was his training at Vienna and the Paris Conservatoire before he was 12. In any event, the charm of Mintz's recording of the three pieces mentioned disappears in the others' lack of diversity in phrasing and tone color. Mintz sometimes plays too fast, too strong or too rubato. Some of his accents and tenutos (notes slightly lengthened for effect) are either too numerous or unnatural. Mintz' basically solid performance will give...
...intelligence, authority and charm, few cookbooks can match Anne Willan's French Regional Cooking (Morrow; $29.95). The English-born, Americanized cuisinière has won international fame with her writing and her La Varenne cooking school in Paris. With four colleagues the author traveled more than 6,000 miles and spent a year choosing and testing the 400 recipes in the book. Their salivant safari takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the Alps, from the sands of St.-Malo to the beaches of Nice, with hardly a dull plat en route. Willan succeeds admirably in analyzing the tastes...