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...have been unseduced and have refused to feature a Let's Go! guide to Burma. Next year, however, they plan to write one. A Let's Go Myanmar! guidebook would play directly into the hands of Burma's despots. The guide would help the regime exploit Burma's charm for its own ends...
...main problems with this novel lie in the fact that Davidson does not know how to engage a reader. While Like Water For Chocolate, a book which Davidson has heavily imitated with her food-as-culture-and-identity-and-feminism theme, had charm and humor, as well as a concrete plot, the plot of The Priest Fainted can be summed up in one sentence: 19 year-old Greek-American girl travels to Greece, makes some friends, has adventurous sex and realizes why her mother decided not to marry a Greek man (because like all men, they, too, are pigs). Coherence...
Skip Kelly, as loyal KISS 108 listeners well know, is a DJ at the station, currently on the air during the late afternoon and early evening. A Boston native, he has been involved in radio for ten years. Skip's good looks and charm light up the studio as he eagerly talks about plans tonight for his 25th birthday party. Behind him are walls lined with thousands of CDs and tapes categorized by color according to release date. Their labels conveniently list how many seconds there are before the song starts. This serves to tell the DJ how long...
...President of the 20th century. He was loved because, though patrician by birth, upbringing and style, he believed in and fought for plain people--for the "forgotten man" (and woman), for the "third of the nation, ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." He was loved because he radiated personal charm, joy in his work, optimism for the future. Even Charles de Gaulle, who well knew Roosevelt's disdain for him, succumbed to the "glittering personality," as he put it, of "that artist, that seducer." "Meeting him," said Winston Churchill, "was like uncorking a bottle of champagne...
...same time that he terrorized his adversaries, he knew how to please, impress and charm the very interlocutors from whom he wanted support. Diplomats and journalists insist as much on his charm as they do on his temper tantrums. The savior admired by his own as he dragged them into his madness, the Satan and exterminating angel feared and hated by all others, Hitler led his people to a shameful defeat without precedent. That his political and strategic ambitions have created a dividing line in the history of this turbulent and tormented century is undeniable: there is a before...