Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This structure is the invention of one man-Frank Lloyd. The style, in its secrecy, luxuriousness and finely tooled indifference, is a corporate version of his own, writ large. At 61, Lloyd is tanned by the Caribbean and tailored like a German banker, a diminutive block of energy, velvety charm and wolfish flair for business. He is also a showman, and every detail of Marlborough's presentation comes under his supervision. Nothing gets left to chance or whim. Thus when selling a Modigliani or a Picasso in Japan, Lloyd reveals it to the client in a lined box with...
...counterpoint. "So smile while you're making it./ Laugh while you're taking it./ Even though you're faking it,/ Nobody's gonna know," Price sings at one point, as Mick, with his radiant smile and infinite belief in his own good fortune, tries to charm and brazen his way to the top. He is outwitted and undone at every turn, tortured in an atomic plant, made the scapegoat in an elaborately criminal international cartel...
Wherever the couple sets up house, Britons will be waiting to see if young Mark can bridle some of his bride's temperament. Though Anne can charm, she can also chafe. As one British court-watcher puts it: "She has imperious moods when that pendulous Windsor lower lip droops and the arrogance of centuries emerges." She has never enjoyed performing royal duties as much as her elder brother Prince Charles (who remains the world's most eligible royal single). She makes little attempt to disguise boredom. "I'm an expert on opening Kleenex factories and such...
...legacy of the modern French schools of painting to "the New York school," to a broader idea of "painterliness": For an American in Motherwell's position, to become a painter meant looking to France, to the formal success of its artists but also to their vaguely exotic, elegant charm...
...unglittering and uninfluential majority who have never had Howar zero in on them at a party, her bestselling book obviously provides a print immersion in high-powered gos sip and naughty Southern charm honed to a cutting edge. Like any clever wom an, she is less revealing than she pre tends to be. Most of the lovers are not named (a U.S. Senator, a White House aide), while most of the named are not lovers; not until page 241 does the au thor break the suspense by conceding "an absence of carnal knowledge be tween me and Henry [Kissinger...