Word: charmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abdnor's rival is Democratic Congressman Tom Daschle, a boy-next-door charmer who has relentlessly criticized the incumbent for claiming that farmers should "sell below cost for a while" and for supporting Reagan's ineffective 1985 farm bill. In one of his more rousing speeches, Daschle harks back to 1980, when, he says, "Ronald Reagan and Jim Abdnor asked, 'Are you better off today?' " In 1986, Daschle declares, "we have the opportunity to ask that question again. If you're better off, you better vote Republican. If not, you better vote for a change...
...morose. Le Carre's job is not easy. In order finally to put his father to rest with forgiveness and love, he must first disinter the scoundrel, who died in 1975. Draped in the same checkered past as Ronald Cornwell, Rickie Pym makes darting appearances as an amoral charmer whose lies and bad debts foreshadow the more convoluted betrayals of his son Magnus...
Meet John Ackah Blay-Miezah, native of Ghana, man of the world, a portly, elegant, globe-trotting charmer who seems to awe those who encounter him. "A very intelligent, cultured man," gushed one American admirer. "He knows every opera and can recognize a symphony from just a couple of notes. He is a nationally ranked chess player. He speaks nine languages." He is also, say authorities, a world-class swindler...
Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr. is a cocktail party charmer--funny, deft with words, genially self-mocking and ever ready to step in before the discussion gets too heavy. His best plays, The Dining Room and The Middle Ages, have been set at social events and have had the rambling, episodic quality of witty but wayward conversation. Not surprisingly, a fiftyish college professor who fancies himself capable of shaping an ideal evening is at the center of Gurney's sprightly new puzzle box of a play, The Perfect Party...
What had long worked for the Globe's 400 editors and reporters was the style of Thomas Winship, a gregarious charmer who ran the paper like an Irish pol for two decades before stepping down last year. Janeway, by contrast, was introspective, a cerebral, tautly mannered journalist who had worked at the Atlantic for eleven years before joining the Globe in 1978 as editor of its Sunday magazine. Given Winship's long shadow over the newspaper, a sympathetic colleague observed, "I don't think Mike ever had a chance...