Word: charm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Skip Kelly, as loyal KISS 108 listeners well know, is a DJ at the station, currently on the air during the late afternoon and early evening. A Boston native, he has been involved in radio for ten years. Skip's good looks and charm light up the studio as he eagerly talks about plans tonight for his 25th birthday party. Behind him are walls lined with thousands of CDs and tapes categorized by color according to release date. Their labels conveniently list how many seconds there are before the song starts. This serves to tell the DJ how long...
...what, except that the author has somewhat lazily not bothered to invent his own central figure? But the burden of the novel is that Luke Fairchild is a monster of charm and talent, adulated for the purity of his counterculture protest. And, as Spencer tells it, he abandons his pregnant girlfriend Esther Rothschild when he hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges...
...President of the 20th century. He was loved because, though patrician by birth, upbringing and style, he believed in and fought for plain people--for the "forgotten man" (and woman), for the "third of the nation, ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." He was loved because he radiated personal charm, joy in his work, optimism for the future. Even Charles de Gaulle, who well knew Roosevelt's disdain for him, succumbed to the "glittering personality," as he put it, of "that artist, that seducer." "Meeting him," said Winston Churchill, "was like uncorking a bottle of champagne...
...same time that he terrorized his adversaries, he knew how to please, impress and charm the very interlocutors from whom he wanted support. Diplomats and journalists insist as much on his charm as they do on his temper tantrums. The savior admired by his own as he dragged them into his madness, the Satan and exterminating angel feared and hated by all others, Hitler led his people to a shameful defeat without precedent. That his political and strategic ambitions have created a dividing line in the history of this turbulent and tormented century is undeniable: there is a before...
...room, I found that I was still consistently late to morning activities. There was only one solution: set-ting my clock ahead. Since mornings were more difficult for me, I attempted to compensate for additional tardiness by setting my clock 13 minutes ahead. Once again, it worked like a charm: I managed to get front row seats in even my earliest classes. But there was still room for improvement...