Word: charme
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...bucolic tranquility-isn't as contrived as you would expect. Founders Howard Klein and Tom Talucci have lived in Indonesia for over 10 years, and have traveled its islands extensively. The insights they have garnered, as well as their evident good taste, lend the resort an unaffected charm. "We always wondered why no one replicated what it's like to live a village lifestyle," says Klein, before laughingly admitting that having 80 satellite-TV channels in every house (as well as Internet access and air-conditioning) is hardly typical of rural Indonesia...
...form conducive to exaggerated structural shifts, revolutionary melodies, or stunning technical perfection; my jazz instructor loved to make fun of my penchant for blues-based pentatonic scales and predictable I-IV-V chord progressions. But this elegant simplicity and emotional purity is the very essence and charm of the genre and, I hope, its ticket back into the business. Just maybe not through “Black Snake Moan...
...optimists might call me a good-luck charm, the impatient a bad-luck charm, and the grouches would counter that there’s no charm in women’s hockey...
...woman who succeeds in resisting this temptation is she whose sex appeal transcends her sexual aptitude. Such women boast the intelligence necessary to make healthy life decisions, the charm to win the attention of men without promise of physical compensation, the maturity to acknowledge the difference between love and lust, and the confidence to demand the former in situations where they are pressured to compromise themselves for the latter. The mysterious allure of virginity is not rooted in an image of innocence and purity, but rather in the notion of strength: the ability to withstand temptation even in the face...
...utility lineman when he dropped out of college. Although he won a seat in Congress six times, he didn't have to work at it the way some lawmakers did. He easily rolled up huge margins in his Republican-tilted Wyoming district that literally covered the whole state. Personal charm wasn't so much Cheney's secret - the census was. In those days, everyone in Wyoming pretty much knew everyone else. Most years Cheney outpolled his rivals by more than...