Word: charme
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...When then Governor Pat Brown dismissed Reagan as capable of doing nothing more than reading the scripts that had been written for him by hired speechwriters, the future President shrewdly changed the format of his appearances to question-and-answer sessions with his audiences. "Well, it worked like a charm," Reagan later recalled...
Onstage the puppeteers are visible, but their puppets get away with behavior for which humans would be sent to their rooms. Amid it all, the characters grow up and move on. Puppet-on-puppet action is quite a sight, but the show's real charm is that unlike its main characters, it has a heart. --By Kate Betts
Bilmes wrote in an e-mail that she contributed to Edwards’ campaign in large part because her personal experience with him had led her to believe he has “charm, intelligence and charisma...
...Alastair is the one most responsible that they have this reputation for mendacity, and have made so many unnecessary enemies." In person Campbell seems an unlikely Goebbels. Breezy, articulate, charismatic, accomplished on the bagpipes and a lifelong supporter of the hapless Burnley football club, he gives off a blokish charm and confidence. Veteran reporters he has publicly tongue-lashed and undercut by leaking to competitors still tend to like him personally. As chief political reporter for Robert Maxwell's pro-Labour Daily Mirror when Neil Kinnock was party leader, Campbell became so close to Kinnock that he helped write...
...shoving aside Shakespeare and Stoppard on the West End (often with big-name U.S. stars in the cast) seem to be reveling in the worst of the U.S. In the current hit revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria leave all their charm at passport control as they add an extra layer of bile to Mamet's caustic portrait of the battle of the sexes in the Midwestern heartland...