Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pair of Foxes: "Kissinger was touched at once by [Egyptian President Anwar] Sadat's urbanity and charm [during their first meeting in 1973]; Sadat liked Kissinger's incisiveness, so refreshing after the naivete of [U.S. Secretary of State William] Rogers. However, the reports of their instant romance (soon to be dramatized by their public kissing) have been exaggerated. Essentially we glimpse a pair of foxes exchanging oaths of confidence, each of them intent on wielding the other for his own purpose...
...incapacitated by ill-health. Throughout the Congress, he received tributes surpassing anything that has been said about a Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Uzbekistan Party Secretary Sharaf R. Rashidov, for example, rhapsodized over his leader's "excessive modesty and brilliant talent, his spiritual beauty and personal charm...
...Boulez was not able to charm the older subscribers or assert himself as an exciting interpreter of the bread-and-butter repertory. The Philharmonic will be looking to Mehta to repair those weak spots. Only 26 when he took over the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1962, he still carries the nickname "Zubi Baby," but no one denies his musical credentials or his sex appeal. He does not dance on the podium like Leonard Bernstein, another predecessor in New York, but he does have an elegant presence...
...course, Bowie was always more than merely jarring. To lump him with Alice Cooper, as many do, is a mistake. Despite Cooper's first name and penchant for mascara, his songs were as straight as the midwestern plains from which he came. Cooper's charm, nurtured by Zappa's aesthetic of ugliness, lies elsewhere, perhaps in the psychic territory of a sixth grader...
...journal. At the time of his murder, he was composing a treatise on the failure of the American experiment. The reader is compelled to ask if the megalomaniacal Petrie was 1) a mere crackpot, 2) a latter-day Henry Adams or 3) a pernicious William F. Buckley minus the charm. The novel is slowly unraveled by three highly inflamed, profoundly disturbed minds. Each version of the events needs the other two to make literary and psychological sense...