Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horror movies? Who isn't? A genre spoof is usually an act of artistic masturbation: it exercises the adolescent imagination over an object that may have been too trashy ever to get excited about.In the process, spoofery tends to diminish both its own value and whatever power or charm the original work might have had. It is nostalgia calcified into camp...
...Democrats on the war-and-peace issue. But the question still nags: What business can be transacted at a summit? Both leaderships have disclaimed any interest at all in a getting-to-know-you session. And they are right to do so. The combination of Reagan's extraordinary charm and political street smarts, which stands him in good stead with allied leaders and helps compensate for his relative innocence in world affairs, would neither interest nor impress Andropov. Personality would not be on the agenda...
Determined exploitation of humor by politicians probably started after Adlai Stevenson and then John Kennedy used quips to charm the press and public. "In America," said Stevenson, who lost the presidency twice, "any boy may become President, and I suppose that's just the risk he takes." During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy used a joke to defuse criticism that he was a spoiled rich man's son. His father, Kennedy said, had sent him a telegram: "Don't buy one vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'll pay for a landslide...
...South Street revival is the result of a 16-year struggle by a persistent group of citizens. Out of a love of old ships and the gritty charm of old buildings and streets, they began a unique route to urban renewal. The first step, in 1967, was the establishment of the South Street Seaport Museum, led by Advertising Executive Peter Stanford, and supported by Shipping Magnate Jakob Isbrandtsen. The pooling of resources from the private sector helped make the institution more than a collection of artifacts. Among the principal contributors: Laurance Rockefeller, the Astor Foundation, RCA, Exxon and Time...
...brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most of Buñuel's later films. A vehement antifascist, he left Spain in 1938, later won a Cannes Festival Grand Prix for Viridiana (1961) and an Academy Award for his scathing The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). He said his films contained no deliberate symbolism but hedged, "Perhaps there are other meanings unknown by myself...