Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marler recounts these events with distinct charm and skill. He uses a breathy, confidential tone for most of the narration, and his stylized hesitations lend a note of naturalness without seeming awkward. When he does assume another voice, as in one monologue imitating a conversation which he overheard at a restaurant, he is equally at ease, building from ordinary chitchat to frantically dramatic pronouncements with subtlety...
...dated before the crowd found its way out of the circus. Modern fashion will never follow a single leader, but if designers, retailers and women have anything to say about it, sanity is here to stay a while-along with a touch of class and maybe a whiff of charm. Mugler served at least one important function: bring in the clowns, the bearded ladies, the acrobats. It's all downright nostalgic. --Reported bY Greg Burke/Rome, Dorie Denbigh/Paris, Barbara Rudolph and David E. Thigpen/New York
...Robert Johnson. The original recordings of these performances in the 1930s were crudely done, and for this release, some of the sonic flaws have been smoothed over. Johnson died in 1938, but his songs-such as 32-20 Blues and Come on in My Kitchen-still radiate a devilish charm and plucky inventiveness. Newcomers may have taken the blues, but Johnson reminds us that they haven't gone very...
...both meticulous and harmonious, reflecting the standards of luxe and craft he has always pursued. Many of 1995's fashion heroes, including Lagerfeld and Versace, took their inspiration from Givenchy. Stung by the consequences of forays into ugliness, they turned to a designer who has always brought grace and charm alive...
...bleach even the streets of Manhattan) has been racially integrated. A black woman (Lillias White as Miss Jones, the boss's formidable secretary) broadens the "brotherhood" in the last big song, The Brotherhood of Man, turning it into a rousing gospel number. These small touches enhance the show's charm. If blacks were kept out of corporate boardrooms in 1961, such injustices can now be symbolically amended; this nostalgic production recalls a fairer era than the one we lived through...