Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from his doublet into a sort of Dennis the Menace of the ancien regime. At first blush, you can't help wondering how this marginally pubescent page would go about kissing one of his idols--he'd have to spit out his bubblegum first. But Atkinson's verve and charm finally overcome the improbability of her characterization to make it a high point of the production...
While Blount has often left routine negotiations on construction contracts to lieutenants, he himself followed the mammoth Saudi project. He jetted to Riyadh more than 20 times over 18 months to work his Southern charm on the sheiks...
...written and directed, so entirely without wit or novelty, that there is plenty of time to wonder about its many missing explanations. Also missing is the leading lady -Lindsay Wagner, who is supposed to be Deke's beloved but has only two brief scenes. Also absent are the charm and style Billy Dee Williams might have brought to his role as Deke's partner...
...must remember that preppy fashion's value lies in the monetary symbol of its diverse logos. The sole charm of a Lacoste shirt is the Lacoste. The Handbook confirms this: "Subtleties of cut, weave, or color distinguish the merely good from the Prep. A small percentage of polyester in oxford cloth shirt of a lapel that's a quarter of an inch too wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest...
Television is lowbrow--our electronic lowest common denominator--and it has none of the charm (like, say, detective novels) to propel it into the realm of any sort of artistic appreciation. It's not just the game shows, and it's not just those godawful pre fabricated housewives choosing between potatoes or stuffing or sinus drainer. It goes beyond that, somehow. There's always been a certain embarrassment about television, as if at its center were some yawning pit, some frivolous darkness upon which we can project the worst of our adolescent self-images...