Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Columbus, a director who can make a routine shot of a couple of airplanes taking off artful and full of portent, who completes our entrancement. He has -- no kidding -- a vision of New York City, a nicely dislocating blend of charm and grunge. It's not quite real, not entirely fanciful. It is a child's-eye view of the place, full of glamorous shimmer and eerie shadows, a haunted Disneyland...
...cost $34 million, but it looks twice as expensive and expansive). In the mid-'20s, Malcolm Little's parents are threatened by the Ku , Klux Klan. In the '30s he finds both acceptance and isolation in white foster homes and white schools. In the '40s Malcolm (embodied with potent charm by Denzel Washington) is a rakish dude, running numbers and lording it over his white mistress Sophia. In the '50s he finds Allah in jail and becomes a minister of the Black Muslim faith under the sect's founder, Elijah Muhammad. In the '60s, with the encouragement of his wife...
...downside are the two mothers (Leslie Yahia and Jill Weitzner) who charm us during musical numbers but appear awkward when not dancing. Though the play originally calls for middle-aged fathers in the roles of the conniving parents, the choice of actresses may have been less disturbing in this instance if the women acted as either men or as more feminine mothers. With gardening clothes, powdered hair, and hunched posture, the characters seem unusually old and androgynous: our curiosity about their gender serves to confuse, not entertain...
Ever since Harvard's building boom in the early 1800s, red brick buildings have remained a symbol of old New England industrial Yankee charm...
...with obstructive measures like the all- or-nothing "zero option" for European missiles. Reagan started slowly in foreign affairs, directing his whole first year to the tax cuts he wrestled through Congress. But he moved quickly when he finally met Soviet leaders and found, as usual, that he was charmed by his ability to charm them. The party that had punished Kissinger for measures of detente found its favorite cold warrior racing right past peaceful coexistence to plunge into peaceful cooperation...