Word: charms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...festival aiming to redefine the audience's approach to musical works. The two idiosyncratic sketches presented in the Agassiz exemplify such experimentation; more important though they present it sweetly and undidactically, washing the lesson down with strikingly tuneful music and a structure whose bizarreness only adds to its charm...
...other actresses particularly stand out and while McNamara as April and Belle Linda Halpern as Hoanne could not portray more divergent characters, each conveys idiosyncrasies with infinite charm. As the blond ditsy April McNamara reveals her beautiful sopraho in the duet "Barcelona" with Robert. And dark haired dark eyed Halpen as the cynical drunken Joanne displays a stunning voice in two numbers- "The Little Things," which mocks the supposed bliss of marriage and the solo, "The Ladies Who Lunch," which evinces a hearty disgust with pretense...
...even though we can't hear Jones all the time, his Robert successfully attracts our attention with his energy and charm. Jones is youthfully handsome, just what is needed for the adolescent who virtually matures before our very eyes. His ultimate realization makes Sondheim's message especially poignant that marriage will not necessarily fulfill all his needs; that travelling in circles will only make you dizzy...
...standard one. He receives visitors with a correctness that is so smooth it can be mistaken for real easiness. But Board Member William Coleman, a Secretary of Transportation in the Ford Administration and now a Washington lawyer, says Opel is noted more for his strength than for his charm. Says Coleman: "He's tough. You can tell instantly when you're rubbing him the wrong way or when you've stayed beyond your time...
...people that you are funny is tough enough. That demands talent, resilience, digital-watch timing, an amplitude of self-confidence that never spills over into arrogance, and Eddie Murphy has it all. But for people to like you is something else, something more difficult to define: a gift, a charm, a comedic sex appeal. Murphy's bad-boy street patter, with four-letter words used less to shock or threaten than to salt his jokes with the rhythm of machismo, carries with it an inner-city demand for respect. Then suddenly his handsome face flashes a good-boy dimple...