Word: charmingly
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...early days of this memoir have the charm and freedom of life lived as holiday in someone else's magic country. "My first impression of Paris was that it wasn't so much a city as a stage setting from a Broadway musical," Buchwald reports. "The sidewalk cafes were exactly as they were depicted in the magazines and movies...honking taxis, street vendors selling dirty pictures, roses, oriental rugs..." Buchwald talked his way into a job as a nightclub and film reviewer for the Herald Tribune. His career was launched. Buchwald's recollections of the Trib's scruffy Paris bureau...
...people who cannot translate the lessons of therapy into compelling prose, frustratingly little to say. Of her great passion, Richard Burton, she says their love was "precious and deeply spiritual for us both," while a dry and rather lifeless Laurence Olivier was "brimming with a kind of false charm." Bloom also devotes a chapter to her nine-year marriage to Rod Steiger, with whom she had a daughter, Anna...
...same in the theater of politics. If we accidentally glimpse animal masculinity there--the Tasmanian devil of male desire--it is like stumbling upon secret squalor, the hand under the table, the old Packwood charm. A public exposure of the full horror of male desire sometimes leads to public relations catastrophes. On the other hand, Bill Clinton has shown that such storms can be weathered without noticeable damage...
...Home are the restrained naturalism of its playing; its gentle, unforced direction by Carroll Ballard; and above all its imagery, shot by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, of Amy, Tom and the birds in flight. At once comic and soaring, artful and artless, these scenes lift us from earthbound disbelief and charm our acquiescence in the sweetest of adventures...
...money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof with Damon Wayans, graduate of another TV sketch show, In Living Color, and a person of actual charm and talent...