Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, in film after profligate film he described the fatal charm of the bourgeoisie for any working-class striver, or anyone too idealistic to recognize its strangling power. In 1978 Fassbinder was lucky enough to find a pair of screenwriters, Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich, who set this theme in '50s Germany, and retooled it with more dexterity than Fassbinder had shown in his own scripts. The result of this collaboration was a trilogy-Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982)-that blended movie melodramas with acerbic sociology, and revealed the curse behind...
...uninhibited inventiveness suits that atmosphere perfectly. One has to scramble back beyond the '50s to find a comparison with what he is doing in pictures like this and The Stunt Man. It is, of course, to John Barrymore, offering up his very self to parody the charm and bravado, the intelligence and weakness of the character behind a classic leading man's profile. The result, now as then, is work that goes beyond laughter into the more sublime realms of honest and poignant self-revelation. -By Richard Schickel
...part, Peres' low rating is due to his weakness on the hustings. A genial, low-keyed campaigner, he exudes great personal charm but has little of Begin's power to move crowds. Peres acknowledges this shortcoming but insists that the party's appeal can make up for it. "I am not interested in the public who shout 'Begin! Begin!' in the squares," says Peres. "I believe that our potential was not fully expressed during the 1981 election campaign. We lost some 100,000 votes because of political mistakes. We can win the Arab community...
...tour, is that he is booked into such huge theaters. The Metropolitan, for example, seats about 4,000; the Olympia in Paris, where Montand is accustomed to playing, holds only 2,100. The Metropolitan Opera House was designed for grand opera, not intimacy and even Montand's considerable charm is not large enough to fill it, or the other vast halls he will be playing...
...Steinbrenner's money and methods have quickened a lot of the standard prejudices about the Yankees. They were always the Romans of baseball: triumphal, imperial. They were dynastic; they cherished a memory of the Ruth and the DiMaggio and the Mantle days. But there was rarely much charm or color or heart in rooting for them. The Yankees never appealed much to that side of the American character that likes to root for the underdog...