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Like its source, this Pride and Prejudice makes spectators care about the fates of some very silly and shallow people, endowing them with no heroism but great vulnerability and charm. Pownall, 47, has plucked out the essentials from Austen. There is the tug-of-war wedlock of the middle-aged Bennets, she (Marge Redmond) a worrier and a conniver, he (Richard Kiley) a detached and almost enigmatic amateur scholar. There is the frustrating courtship dance between the Bennets' clever, winsome daughter Elizabeth (Jane Kaczmarek) and the rich Mr. Darcy (Peter Gallagher), both too proud to recognize the inevitability of their...
...charm of this place has always been that there's nothing to do here," muses Mel Haber, a Palm Springs innkeeper. "You could sit and read a book. There was no worry about being someplace else nearby, because nothing was happening there either." Nancy and Ronald Reagan did more than read books during their New Year's holiday stay last week at Sunnylands, the secluded retreat of Multimillionaire Walter Annenberg in Rancho Mirage outside Palm Springs. But if they had peered through the dense row of tamarisk trees that shield the 200-acre estate from the gaze of outsiders, they...
...Payton, the Bears are far from the most comely players in the National Football League. In fact, beginning with a quarterback who cuts his own hair, young Jim McMahon, they could be the least glamorous people ever to dine at a Super Bowl, which may start to explain their charm...
President Reagan might argue that he was never all that stubborn. At five previous summits, Reagan's charm was an important unifying influence, even when his free-market stands led to ideological splits among the allies. But now that the U.S. has assumed a new, pragmatic role in economic summitry, the Great Communicator may prove to be even more beguiling in Tokyo. --By George Russell. Reported by Jay Branegan and Christopher Redman/Washington
President Aquino's charm lies in her honesty. Until she came along, I was disillusioned with politicians. She has projected a new image of the profession. We Koreans thirst for a leader like Aquino. Chin-Hyun Kim Soon-Chon City, South Korea...