Word: charme
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Candidate Bush chastised Bill Clinton for turning Russian-American relations into a game of personal chemistry. That was forgotten when Bush first met Putin last month and gushed that he had looked into the former KGB man's eyes "to get a sense of his soul." Bush believes his charm and persuasiveness will move his pal Putin to let the U.S. do what it wants. As an adviser puts it, the Administration is going to "work it and work it and work it and work it" until Putin gives...
Besides having a child-like charm, this style means also to be instantly absorbable. It turns comix images into their most basic signifiers. After all, how much visual information do we need to know we are seeing a horse or car? And in Porcellino's case, it perfectly reflects the almost Zen quality of his writing. At the end of "Mountain Song" a muskrat (scarcely more than an oval with a line at the back) slips into a pond. Wordlessly, Porcellino then draws several panels of vaguely abstract images that could be either details of the pond or even increasingly...
...whose emotional life is laid out for all to see, Julia Roberts still manages to connect with moviegoers in ways that few other actors have. Possessing so much information about her, and especially about her blithe but wayward romances, audiences feel they know her intimately in all her vulnerable charm; they feel protective and affectionate; and these feelings in turn invest her screen performances with a special immediacy and resonance...
Through design or instinct, Roberts cannily feeds her goddess-next-door image. She ladles her charm onto David Letterman, and the cynic morphs into a swain. She was chattily charismatic picking up her laurels at the Golden Globes and the Oscars; if there were an award for Best Acceptance Speech, she'd win that...
...people in Calcutta believe the heyday of the bourse, or its roguish charm, can be restored. The city's private financiers were burned by the crash and are less willing to take risks, even for a friend. "All the trust has been lost," laments Kanta Prasad Changoiwala. Volumes on the bourse are expected to take another hit after July 2, when SEBI plans to introduce new rules?including regulated futures and options trading?aimed at controlling market hijinks. Some brokers think the Calcutta Stock Exchange may cease to exist altogether in a few months. For Changoiwala it would...