Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather faded comedy of the great hidden role wives play in their husbands' careers remains a sort of unfading matinee attraction. It is cleverly "human" without being even slightly real. Its little golden nugget of truth is heavily coated with all the familiar Barrie chemicals-romantic fancy, sentimental charm, playful humor, terrifying coyness and thick Scotch burr. And in creating plain Maggie Shand, whose wit and wisdom were the making of her priggish husband's fortune, Barrie was practicing all Maggie's guile on the opposite...
...contrary, it was their very beauty, and the seriousness and reality of their little world, which had held her entranced through the long summer holidays of her own childhood." Some of the animals in the illustrations of the Potter Tales are set in their frames with the dignity and charm of aristocrats in old English miniatures...
...charm of powerful trouble...
...their afternoon baths is still going strong, the water works reported last night. Crews have been working on the break since its discovery but are having a hard time plugging it up. Flooded cellars and furious pumping operations have given that section of Cambridge a bit of Mississippi River charm...
...story is lasciviously simple, especially for those with an eye for triangles and the more intricate geometrics d'amour so deftly contrived by the remorseless Noel. At the apex is the immoral Gary Essendine (Webb), whom Noel has attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace of Grouche Marx and the caustic sauciness of Woolcott. Perched giddily atop the crotic ding dong of assorted amours is a rare fruit who barely manages to sublimate his passion for Gary. This catalogue of irregular and illicit love left the bean monde opening nighters in a happy sweat. In less...