Word: delightfullness
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LUCKILY, Sleeping Beauty depends far more on the heroine than on her prince, and in the Boston production Elaine Bauer and glowing theatrical spectacle managed to tip the balance between ho-hum and lovely, creating a delightful evening from what might have been an embarrassing antique.
Amy Irving is a delightful heroine; she's not as spacey as Sissy, but then, who is? Charles Durning, who bears a startling resemblance to W.C. Fields, fulfills none of his potential to make the head doctor of the parapsychic institute a triumphant parody, but one William Finley as a...
ALL IN ALL dull stuff, except for Olivier. Why did he make The Betsy?, you ask. He no longer has the strength to act in the theater, so he has devoted himself to making money for his children and grandchildren (those paychecks from the National Theatre were piddling sums). Olivier...
Despite the public's curiosity, very few scientific studies of either very short or very tall people have been done. Gnomes, a delightful and wonderfully illustrated treatise on the six-inch people who inhabit forest and field, may help fill that gap.
Then the adventurer becomes, of all things, a tobacco farmer in Pennsylvania's Amish country. No outsider knows more about the sect than Ogilvy, who scatters insights and anecdotes in his wake. He is a bust at farming, and at 38 he conquers Madison Avenue. His exploits there have...