Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most intensely insular movie the British have yet exported to the U.S., becomes too clumsy or too coy; from beginning to end it is as genteel as rectory crumpets. And though none of the classical Village Types is revealed on the level of high comedy, the picture has considerable charm and humor...
...sketches, snapshots and a teacup or two. For her big-spending customers, such as Mrs. E. F. Hutton, Mrs. Pierre du Pont and Mrs. James Van Alen, Sophie usually pops out of her office and plays salesgirl herself. She is quite a salesgirl, and can usually manage to charm the customers into wearing what she thinks they should. Before an adamantine customer who knows exactly what she wants, regardless, Sophie gracefully gives in. "I used to tell everyone when something wasn't becoming to them," she says. "Then they went right out to other shops and bought something like...
...reason why artists like to do still lifes is because they are the easiest kind of painting. Models that stay put are a big help; and such typical still life subjects as apples, books, pipes, when carefully copied, have a kind of teasing charm-like candy in a showcase. But the champions of still life, from Memling* to Picasso, have found its very simplicity a challenge...
Lucky Stassen. He saw action as Halsey's observer during a naval engagement off Empress Augusta Bay, and began to be regarded as a sort of human charm: his ship was hit twice and frequently straddled by gunfire but it suffered little damage. He saw more action after that-many an officer was comforted to see him on the bridge of the Admiral's flagship during the vicious and decisive Battles of the Philippine Sea. Sailormen took to the custom of patting his khaki shirt, just for luck...
...encounters on landing. That turns out to be his son Idamante, who is in love with Ilia, daughter of the vanquished King of Troy. The gods finally clear up the whole matter, and the opera ends four hours later with Idamante and Ilia on the throne. Even the charm of Mozart's music failed to offset the plot...