Word: charme
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Moving on, however, is not as easy as it might seem. The "good life" is intoxicating, and like any other narcotic, its charm is not easily broken and its demands are increasingly hard to meet. It is no surprise that each succeeding reunion sees its alums driving better cars than the last, for if luxury is not ever replacing itself, it risks becoming mundane. To keep up with this lifestyle, we have to ensure that, whatever we're doing, we're able to finance its demands. But when these demands tend to hollow out any meaningful core to our lives...
Murphy does his homework and does it with charm, but after a point, his teams need to execute on the field more consistently. A certain former men's hockey coach also was an excellent recruiter and schmoozer, but he never could translate the talent to actual game success after his initial years...
...tacky, both perpetual adolescents. When Elvis was performing, the person in the farthest balcony seat thought Elvis was performing directly for him. Go into a large room of people with Bill Clinton, and it seems like he's talking directly at you. It's a kind of rakish charm on overload. There's a disdain for both Clinton and Presley by the East Coast elites, who saw them as backward, Pentecostal hillbillies, when in truth both were very sophisticated at what they do. They will both be forever lampooned, yet real people who understand popular music know why Elvis...
...every media bigwig in the States. He and AOL CEO Steve Case became good friends, and Case began to introduce Middelhoff around. Although he may have that steely look and the precision dress of a Frankfurt banker, his new media friends discovered Middelhoff to be a man of surprising charm and easy humor. That down-homeness may reflect his roots. He lives on a farm outside Gutersloh with his wife, five children, 45 cows and sheep, and a duck pond. "Thomas can defuse the tension in any room," says Aydin Caginalp, Bertelsmann's U.S. attorney for 18 years...
...before going into the room. The idea is that babies need to learn how to fall asleep on their own--without parental intervention in the form of rocking or nursing. For every parent who has told me that this seems hardhearted, another has sheepishly said it worked like a charm after a few nights...