Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wait a minute, though! What happens when the other side decides to put on a show itself? What happens when they countersubversively decide to use the Rascals' best weapon--amateur audacity and charm--to win mass approval for themselves? Crafty kids. They ask dad the best way to raise the money, and they ask mum if they can borrow the interior decorator to do the sets and they hire a Professional Director to choreograph the kick line. But No Girls Allowed, so some of the kids stuff their skirts with petticoats and put on phony busts. Step kick kick, step...
...fine. Click click click click click click click. Into that big brass bed of a back seat she came ... Cleopatra ... ravaged husbands ... headlines ... southern charm ... headlines ... diamonds ... bigger diamonds ... Farrah Fawcett-drip Majors and "One Million B.C." bosoms paled in comparison. She was The Queen Bee, the dream of very press photographer. And now here I was rising above the multitude of lenses to claim my prize. Almost instantaneously I straddled the fenders and lay prostrate on the firm hood of that convertible '58 Lincoln Continental. The picture was mine...
...have been blessed with great personal charm, a taste for the better things in life, and considerable self control...
Cairo is planning to greet Vance with equal-if not greater-enthusiasm. President Anwar Sadat is preparing to charm the American in an attempt to build the same kind of personal relationship that existed with Kissinger ("My friend Henry"). The Egyptian leader is sure to emphasize that because moderates are now in the saddle in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, Israel should take advantage of a unique chance to obtain a fair, negotiated peace settlement. Sadat will also want to press Vance for increased U.S. aid for Egypt's faltering economy...
...kept the color-indeed, heightened it-but drained away the life. He seems to have fastened on the legend only to repudiate it. Seen through his hostile lens, Casanova is a chilly fop whose salon manner is alternately tongue-tied and bombastic. How such a creature manages to charm so many women into the bedroom remains a mystery. Nor, once he gets them there, is it easy to see how they can derive much fun from the groaning calisthenics he puts them through. This is a film that earns its R rating not by making sin enticing but by making...