Word: charmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photo album for the first year alone threatens to be a three-volume work, but the kid could probably cause shutter flutter no matter who his parents were. At Kensington Palace, nine-month-old Prince William the Charmer sat not entirely still for just one more photo session. The young royal intermittently bared his six new teeth, chewed on a daffodil, and hugged his stuffed koala, perhaps in anticipation of the family's upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. Breaking with a tradition that calls for heirs to be left safe at home while their parents travel, Prince...
...Georgia in 1960 after her divorced mother married a U.S. colonel, John Kelly. Six years later Petra went to Washington's American University, where she majored in political science and took a crash course in grass-roots activism. On campus, Kelly distinguished herself as an enterprising and indefatigable charmer: after being bombarded by her letters, Robert Kennedy advised her about scholarships, Hubert Humphrey had a lengthy correspondence with her, and Pope Paul VI reserved five seats for her at a Vatican audience. More important, she imbibed at college the heady spirit of '60s idealism, reading Thoreau, watching Martin...
...things began to look brighter. A man called [Hafizullah] Amin seemingly emerged from nowhere to be Taraki's deputy. He was a cultivated Oriental charmer. Quietly, Amin began to take control away from Taraki. More important, he persuaded Moscow that he would be able to defuse the Muslim threat. We at the KGB, though, had doubts about Amin from the start. Our investigations showed him to be a smooth-talking fascist who was secretly pro-Western (he had been educated in the United States) and had links with the Americans. We also suspected that he had links with...
...even more endearing character is Gus, the Theater Cat. Stephen Hanan makes him a dipsy old charmer who deplores the lack of discipline in modern actors...
Turner's whirlwind pace leaves most aides looking a little shellshocked. He is a kaleidoscope of ever shifting moods, interests, personalities: now the apoplectic boss, now the courtly charmer, now the scholar and Renaissance man, now the buccaneer business baron. If Turner were a character from Shakespeare, and he has that kind of incandescence, he would be in equal parts the nobly ambitious Prince Hal, the impulsively belligerent Hotspur and the comically self-indulgent Falstaff. Says Schonfeld: "If Ted Turner were a color, it would be red-the red of the surface of the sun." Adds another Turner aide...