Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been showering his work upon the world, and each picture, taken separately, has given some delight to some people. Have his long labors accomplished anything more than that? The answer is yes, much more, in spite of the fact that Matisse's avowed purpose has been simply to charm. He has not only enriched the history of art, but changed...
Charmer's Charm. The Sheraton Corp. of America hotel chain's cocktail lounge "Service with Charm" (principal item: nylon-gowned waitresses picked for looks, height [5'6"] and underpinning) had worked like a charm, said New York General Manager Gilbert Johnson. It had more than doubled liquor sales in eleven hotels and will be extended to all the rest with lounges...
John Moore's studies of men and manners in the Cotswolds, as presented in Brensham Village and its predecessor The Fair Field (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), will do for the U.S. reader what Hollywood did for Lord Orris-transport him into an overseas dreamland whose main charm is its remoteness from everyday life. Just as the romantic "reporting" of H. L. Mencken makes old Baltimore a place of "happy days," so does Author Moore's accomplished imagination remove his rural Englishmen as far from mediocre reality as Falstaff and Prince Hal are from the men in the Kinsey...
...Even the customers had changed. There were fewer crew haircuts, pipes and sports jackets; more bald spots, cigars and paunches. Said an old swing musician : "It was a pretty rugged street to start off with and you couldn't hurt it much. But it's lost its charm...
...watch his delight in his job. Colman is not a great actor, but he gives an arresting demonstration of what a good actor can do with great material when he cares enough for it. And in his non-Shakespearean sequences he makes the most of the particular grace, charm and likableness which have been his unique contribution to movies...