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Colm M., 25, is a Belfast-born barman and bouncer. More a charmer than a strongarm, Colm arrived in New York as a teenager. His father came originally to escape "the troubles." Colm, his mother and three siblings followed on visitor's visas and stayed on. "There was nothing there for us," he explains. Even so, it took him years to adjust to American cultural attitudes. "In Ireland everybody was afraid of the teacher, but here the kid would tell the teacher to F off. In Ireland you could get killed for that. First the teacher would kill you; then...
...BOTTOM LINE: The cult secret is out: this comic charmer about pen paramours who meet is one of the all-time greats...
...store Ziegfeld best remembered these days as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's eight husbands. That biographical fact is a little inconvenient for the narrative, which builds to a reconciliation with a prior wife, film star Joan Blondell. But in its corny, cheerily brainless way, the show is a charmer...
...novel, landscape gardening - so talk won't be a problem. Physical state not so hot, but if you persevere with Tony, you are fully recompensed. In short, a good deal - may come across a bit shaky, but I think his mastery of World War Two statistics is a known charmer. Pecker's raring, and there's a three pack in the left-hand pocket. He's roaring, you're going to see the best of him tonight." Meanwhile you rest in the corner, patiently expecting a chance to move in, with your reputation built up to unprecedented heights...
...dollars. Fallingwater was the country house of Pittsburgh department-store owner Edgar Kaufmann, and for "Hib" Johnson of Johnson's Wax he designed an enormous house as well as a corporate headquarters. Richard Lloyd Jones, the architect's newspaper-publisher cousin, called him a "strutting, self- seeking, self-centered charmer" -- but he loved the house Wright built him, even though it (typically) went 50% over budget and (typically) leaked. "Well," Jones' wife said, "this is what we get for leaving a work of art out in the rain...