Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bacon, a notably venturesome and versatile young actor, wavers in and out of a Scottish brogue but ably blends charm, petulance, wit and selfishness as a would-be artist who counts on his talent to lift him up. Penn persuasively portrays a clever lad who is so defeated that he cannot imagine a light, or even an end to the tunnel. The two young men's high-kicking, cruel humor works better in the play's free-form first act than in the second, which is overladen with plot. But at every moment they capture the futile bravado...
Journalists have traditionally been sycophantic toward bluebloods, giving royals far too much uncritical press. Diana is charming! But seeing that charm incessantly on American magazine covers now cloys...
...borne row as best they can Indeed, many consider a tank more grueling than an outdoor practice. Tanks are shorter--25 or 40 minutes during the week, an hour "of power" on Saturdays--they are more intense, they take place indoors and they are by definition boring (an inherent charm of crew on the Charles is the scenery...
...then again, power corrupts and every politician-Black, white, rich, or poor-can fall under its charm. Every candidate is a reformer, but what he does as mayor is a different story. It is, as of now, too early to count out the political machine, no matter how many politicians sound its death knell...
...then build a refinery, the natives would launch a counterstrike of sly and eccentric schemes designed to sabotage the outlanders' plans. How times have changed! In Local Hero, the residents, excepting one beachcomber holdout, are all eager to sell. It is the outsiders, succumbing to the charm of the place, who end up defending it against everyone's greedy impulses...