Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domestic crises (mostly of her own making) and straightens out whatever is troubling the neighbors. But her forte is in canny diagnosis of ailments that have baffled her doctor hubby; the silly old dear could not see a wart under his own nose. Actress Reed plays mom with engaging charm. But the directors have hobbled the stride of the show with many a long, purposeless pause, as if they thought that viewers would be howling at the line that preceded...
...hips swaying, his arms flinging wide in a characteristic expression of musical frenzy. A youthful work (1897-1901) by Connecticut's late, largely self-taught Modernist Ives (an insurance broker most of his active life), the symphony was, as Lennie remarked, "original, eccentric, naive and as full of charm as an old lace valentine." With his own special mixture of eloquence, charm and ham, Bernstein thus gave the Philharmonic an excitement that it has not known in years (he will give the talks only at the Thursday-night "previews"). Broadway Librettist Adolph Green put it most succinctly when...
...about 5? more than the brands of such chains as A. & P. While Minute Maid feels its quality justifies the price difference, it wants to increase its share of the market. This week Fox announced that Minute Maid is marketing a new concentrate with "the fresh fruity flavor and charm of freshly squeezed oranges," hopes thus to increase profits and customers...
...Charm & Dignity. As the cars have changed, so have selling practices. To inspire some smart-selling hustle, many salesmen have been taken off salary and put on straight commission. For the feminine touch, Fohrman Motors (Chrysler) hired saleswomen, because "women influence car buying so much that it is best to cater to their wishes. No man can really understand what it means to get into a modern car wearing a hobble skirt...
Premier May (Continental) is an intricate little French exercise as formally organized as a rondo, and bearing much the same sort of charm. In the course of a day, a baby is born, a pretty girl gets engaged, a boy learns the facts of life and, in his own way, so does his father. Writer-Director Luis Saslavsky's soft-voiced theme is that no one of these things could have happened unless all the others...