The Musicantino Restaurant, also on the top floor, affords a charming view of the city's roofscape and of the 600-year-old Gothic steeple of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna's signature landmark.
Drawing on the same Venetian and Moroccan design cues as hotel next door, the new Palazzetto 113 is a two-room, three-floor residence with a downstairs living room and a rooftop terrace offering a charming view of Venice's terracotta skyline.
A highlight at the open air screenings – in a park with a charming view over the Bay of Panama – was the Spanish comedy Ghost Graduation, an inspired meeting of The Breakfast Club and The Sixth Sense.
The cost of battling shadows may be indicated by the fact that the most assured works here are the earliest: Brustlein's small blue-tinged portrait of a man from 1936 and Biala's charming view of Paris street life from 1938.
Ms. Sleight's charming view of the village's harbor, a copy of which is in Sag Harbor's John Jermain Library, shows the port at the dawn of its heyday, with the wharves, warehouses and other amenities for the cargo ships and whaling vessels that linked the East End to New England and the wider world.
All of which displays a charming Boys Ownn view of the world, going round knocking off dictators in the name of Socialism.
Here's a charming video of a steam-powered R2D2.
The views of a charming Venetian piazza, of the artist's garden, or of boats rocking in a harbour, the nude models, faithful hounds and snoozing cats are all back in the Royal Academy for the 244th year of the world's oldest and largest open art exhibition – it's just that this time they're very, very small.
Tucked in between these works, though, are more intimate and rewarding paintings: a Yellowstone canyon view by Thomas Moran, a charming Dutch genre scene of skaters on a canal.
I heard from friends that the second-story Opaline Café was charming, with a lovely view of Madison Avenue, that the gift shop was a pure delight, that the special exhibitions were fascinating.
At the time, romantic love was labelled a bourgeois indulgence, but by the end of her stay Jingqiu is involved in a love affair with a charming young geologist with a relaxed view of political rules.
