Word: charm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer to edge away nervously, but to smile and be polite. I must say though, that it is a relief to be home among my own kind where I don't have to put on an act. Though I have to come love Cambridge for its beauty, charm and relative quiet at night, my heart still belongs to New York where passion for cultural diversity and brutal honesty rule...
...longer to edge away nervously, but to smile and be polite. I must say though, that it is a relief to be home among my own kind where I don't have to put on an act. Though I have to come love Cambridge for its beauty, charm and relative quiet at night, my heart still belongs to New York where passion for cultural diversity and brutal honesty rule...
...looks as though the little boy who saluted is lost. Adopted by the world at a funeral, the funeral, that day in 1963, he grew up into the handsome, adored, underachieving creature of the tabloids who, with a heaping portion of the Kennedy charm, blithely steered that over-scrutinized life into something pleasant. He founded a magazine, not a particularly brilliant one, and by all accounts has had a grand time running it. He dated actress Daryl Hannah and then married a model-like fashion-industry darling, and finally all the girls in New York had to stop daydreaming about...
...found in this all-raunch, no-style sex comedy. Writer Adam Herz and the hot producer-director team of Chris and Paul Weitz occasionally hint that a teenager's most poignant groping is for his elusive identity. But don't expect this summer movie to have the huffing charm of Austin Powers or the tuneful brass of South Park. In its mix of caca and sex gags and woozy sentimentality, this is really Adam Sandler: The Next Generation...
Even at his most strident, Mahbubani writes with a diplomat's charm, gleefully untangling political knots into simple threads. The book has a special force because it comes from a man who is a prototype 21st century leader--he has his own URL--and a leading candidate to one day succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. Secretary-General. That pedigree is surely responsible for some of his buzz, but the ambassador's book is anything but a faddish flash...