Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rationale is part aesthetic-the old buildings often have a certain charm and a nostalgic quality-and part economic. To convert a leather factory to handsome apartments in Peabody, Mass., cost $16 per square foot. "By contrast," says William Wheaton, an urban economist at M.I.T., "you cannot build any new housing for less than $22 a square foot, and it looks like hell when it is built." To make conversion even more attractive, the Federal Government will help pay for such projects...
Vergennes's undercover agent, Beaumarchais, 44, is the brash son of a watchmaker. By charm and ability, he worked hi way into the salons of French aristocracy, and he won Vergennes's confidence in two previous secret missions to London. He first bought up and destroyed the alleged memoirs of Madame du Barry, mistress to the late King Louis XV. He returned to London last year to negotiate for the return of some incriminating documents about a proposed French invasion of England. One of Louis XV's secret agents, the Chevalier...
...large measure a reference book on how to do useful things. There are, for instance, seven pages of instruction on how to build a chimney (under "Smoke"). Smellie himself undertook to write the treatises on 15 major sciences (out of the 45 listed), and his style has a charm of its own. Sample: "The Cat... Of all domestic animals, the character of the cat is the most equivocal and suspicious...
Harvard Square's charm will begin to wear on you pretty quickly. What there is to see you can do during the week; for the weekends, a car and getting away is the highest priority. The parking situation in Cambridge is detestable--count on collecting reams of tickets, but not necessarily on paying them, particularly if you're from out of state. Just keep away from the really bad violations like double-parking, which will get your car towed and will help continue subsidizing three local towing companies--Pat's, Chico's, and the Ellery Street garage--in the handsome...
...modestly, because people still ask her to. She is, in fact, one of the great international box office draws in show business. Audiences who pay to see her as the wealthy widow of Pontevedro will get their money's worth in her warm, elegant presence and the effortless charm of her acting. To go hunting in the back of the mind - as one does for the words to Vilia - for the ease and celerity that once made her dancing so youthful, is to be saddened. Dame Margot's flashing dark eyes and her smile offer a promise...