Word: charme
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...movie's success. Commentators on Warren's work often say that it's a study in how power corrupts, and that Willie is essentially a good man ruined by dictatorial depravity. Sean Penn strikes that note, playing him with a kind of bantam-rooster energy--and good-ole-boy charm. But something else is present, thanks in part to Zaillian's alertness to Warren's nuances. Willie has what Huey Long surely did not: a primitive sense of original sin. He believes the world is essentially dirt and that man is born of that filth. He speaks of man living...
...changed on Telstra, including those hard-driving executives who run the company. Since he arrived last year, chief executive Sol Trujillo has participated in a flamboyant campaign against the regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; senior ministers are in thrall, if that's the right word, to his charm, moxie and talent to infuriate. Trujillo, however, is doing what he was hired to do: get the best deals possible for Telstra shareholders, hurt the competition and revamp the company for growth. The market has yet to applaud his efforts...
...room Phranakorn Nornlen, www.phranakorn-nornlen.com, wins the approval of its bearded, tie-dye clientele by incorporating recycled materials in almost every aspect of the fittings. Showerheads are hammered together from brass dessert bowls; remaindered tins of mismatching emulsion from the local paint shop give the walls a dappled charm; lamps are acquired from thrift stores. The location (a kilometer from Khao San Road) and housekeeping rules are equally boho: there's no smoking on the property, no TV in the rooms and organic juices are served at breakfast. LUXX: This newly opened property, www.staywithluxx.com, is the brainchild of ex-financier Dusadee...
...however, the Clintons haven't put down roots in the town, at least in the conventional way. They seem to have few close friends here, and no regular church. But Chappaqua is well-suited to them. It keeps a pleasant hometowny charm, and yet is indisputably affluent and worldly. It's home to many successful executives working in nearby New York City. Here in Chappaqua, even with a tall security fence and Secret Service vehicles parked outside, the Clintons' Dutch Colonial (bought in 1999 for $1.7 million) can seem modest. "This is not a gossipy town," says Janet Stephens...
...would then acknowledge his own compliment, and retire satisfied." But for all of its folksiness, the book can't escape a weightier encounter with history. Severgnini laments Italy's former playboy PM, Silvio Berlusconi, as the personification and perpetuator of the world's Italian stereotypes. "He had a lethal charm," he says. "My book explains why so many Italians voted for him. But it's not pro or against Berlusconi - it explains how much of Italy was in Berlusconi." That is to say, Berlusconi was Italian to a fault. Because of him, "we wasted a few years in terms...