Word: charms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swashbuckling, 50-year-old glamor boy, had more to him than the demagogical charm that caused a swoon ing woman to cry, "We want sons by Perón." More intelligent than his fellow militarists and politicians, he had noted the cracks in Argentina's feudal structure, turned them to his own ends. His method - the Putsch, suppression of civil liberties, apparent social benefits to the under privileged - was fascist. He had stirred up in the Argentine masses both hope and unrest that would not soon be stilled...
...well as the looks of the play-the wedding and burial scenes, the exotic dances, a captivating Imperial March. The best of Composer Scott's incidental music has color also, and one or two of the little songs he has written for Mary Martin have a reedy charm. Actress Martin, straying far from the My Heart Belongs to Daddy sort of singing that made her famous, is attractive and scrupulously unself-indulgent in a role that leaves her, like Lute Song itself, a little lifeless...
Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
Beatice Pearson, ingenue of "The Mermaids Singing," cleverly depicts the childlike charm and shallowness of Consuela, which partially cause the conflict in "He Who Gets Slapped" and end in her death as well as that of "Funny...
Charmer. Alemán knows how to win men and charm women. To President Avila Camacho's wholesome, good-hearted wife, Soledad, who shows him a motherly fondness, Alemán owes many a political debt. Señora de Avila Camacho once defined the official line toward Alemán by stating at dinner: "There will be no criticism of Miguelito in this house...