Word: enchants
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...sentiment is generously larded throughout the collection, although, in fairness, Yevtushenko's verse is more effective in recital. At his best, he is a performance artist whose readings enchant audiences who may not understand what he is saying. He seduces them not with the message but with the medium, the Russian language, with its soft buzzings and throaty sighs...
...brother and sister leave home to wander through a place where exotic figures have the power to enchant and destroy. But the siblings are protected by an even greater force: goodness. At the end of a winding and hazardous journey, the wicked are vanquished and the children are redeemed...
TOMFOOLERY is an entertaining stroll through Lehrer's "off-centered world"--likely to amuse those new to that world, and enchant those who have been waiting two years, or 20, to see that world brought to the stage again. Forget that the punch and irreverence have mellowed with age, and sit back and enjoy the humor. You're sure to leave the Playhouse happily humming. And when the Harvard Band strikes up "Fight Fiercely" next Saturday, make Tom proud and sing along. It's still more irreverent than "Ten Thousand...
Such piquant thoughts enchant partly by astonishment: Who else would say such things in print? The burden is one that Rooney gladly accepts. "I'm telling you all these things about myself not because I think you care about my problems, but it might interest you to translate them into terms of your own." If the author's gifts for home truth and Establishment-deflation are not in the same league with H.L. Mencken's attacks on American foibles, they are comfortable and well-worn. Rooney's humor is like that pair of old loafers...
...Uses for a Dead Cat, Garfield books, and the chuckle-filled Cat's Revenge: More Than 100 Uses for Dead People continue to enchant book-buyers into the holiday season. These are the most popular and sadistic of a slew of books on felines, all of which are completely unsuitable as gifts for your literate acquaintances. You can laugh heartily and from Great Comic Cats, you can learn the history of cat drawings from the 17th century to the present. You can learn to use cats as scooters and rakes and human corpses as insulation and hammocks. You can also...