Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger brought off his Rhodesian coup? "Personal charm," he quipped blithely to reporters in London. Not exactly; but to a large extent it was Kissinger's uncanny understanding of the realities of power, his shrewd timing, and his recognition that only the U.S. could play the role of catalyst that made it possible...
Part of the charm of the show is that it was a World War I Broadway hit musical by Otto Harbach and Louis A. Hirsch that has not so much survived as evaded the erosion of time...
COUSIN, COUSINE, much honored in France, is one of those overbearingly blithe sexual comedies that stirred the New Wave directors to rebellion. The movie confuses fecklessness with charm, trips so lightly that it never settles down to anything telling. Gallic comedies like Cousin, Cousine are animated by a certain earthbound volatility of spirit and depend on a willingness to believe that sensuality can come in an array of sizes and shades, all pastel...
...Sears was among the earliest to sense that Ford, as an appointed incumbent, was vulnerable, and that his huge budget deficits, Nixon pardon and foreign policy stressing accommodation with Moscow and Peking had created a large Republican constituency for Reagan. Sears' own cool, charm and intelligence guarantee him a role in future campaigns-if he wants one. Sears insists that he wants no part of Ford's campaign. Instead, "I'll go back to practicing law." He believes the wounds from the primaries are still too sore for him to join the President's cause; besides...
...feisty faculty gives her a grace period. Said one teacher: "She had areas of what one would call, in a pinch, charm." But Parker becomes impatient with endless faculty meetings, such as five sessions to discuss whether or not to install a toilet in the watchman's booth. At Harvard, they typed her as basically hostile, "a female Mencken." Her Cambridge curt speaking manner bugs the Bennington artsies; her demeanor comes across as aloof, cynical and supercilious. She says she wants to be "queen of the hop on a larger scale...