Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Designed to scare off rice-eating sparrows. Japan's scarecrows are being replaced by smelly chemical repellents and automatic noisemakers. Kataoka believes the modern substitutes work no better than the time-honored field dummies. Moreover, he says, the decline in scarecrows is a blow to rural charm. "Scarecrows," he declares, "are the final remains of our ancestral sense of aesthetics-delicate without being pretentious, colorful yet never loud...
NONETHELESS, her drawings do have a charm of their own. Although not enough of it to hide the underlying calculation. She presents Harvard at its best-in early spring, before oppressive heat and dirt set in; on winter nights, before the new-fallen snow has had a chance to curdle into muddy rivers of brown. Although she expertly captures the plethora of traffic signs-many of which simply read "No, No, No"-that channel us through the Square, traffic is reduced to a stylistic minimum. One notes an occasional piece of litter, but hardly enough to suggest that...
That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it . . . High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl...
...television announcer, the wives of World Series ballplayers are left to their own devices during the games. Those devices, despite strong disavowals of superstition, are varied and weird. Wives whose teams are on winning streaks usually wear the same dress, hat, earrings and rings as long as the charm lasts...
...filled morning. All Radcliffe girls can check off at least a few and elaborate on them. But what is absolutely vital to every legitimately sexist street confrontation, is that the woman must never feel as though she is being singled out for her individuality, her good spirits, or her charm. A street confrontation is never personal; it is always, in Buber's terms, an I-It relationship, never I-Thou. The woman must always be made to feel like an object under appraisal. Slim and rich, like a good cigarette. Soft, like a pair of slippers. Sleek...