Word: pleasingness
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The movie itself is a jumble of all the old show business plots, but then this is a huge gathering of all musicals. Glue for the mixture is a pleasing serum of Irving Berlin's tunes and a splashing does of technicolor. Ethel Merman is the film's biggest asset...
. . . Charles E. Wilson, of course. Not for his great ability . . . but for the guts, the clarity of vision, and the very pleasing naivete which promoted his famous "dogs" statement . . .
The book is the work of an old (73) man who has, whatever his weaknesses as a painter, a virtuosity in line drawing unsurpassed in the whole history of art. The legion of shapes he brings to life are not always pleasing, but invariably turn out to be convincing.
By comparison, Ruth's story-helped by winning performances from Virginia Vincent and Harvey Lembeck-is entertaining, though at an inch-above-comic-strip level. It suggests that when Playwright Reeves abandons pretenses and writes to please in a straight popular-comedy vein, he may very well prove pleasing...
Mendes-France is as anxious as anyone else that communism be met with strength. He is convinced that a strong France is vital to the interests of the free world. But he also knows that French foreign policy cannot be a brittle shell over a rotting core. For communism can...