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...Street, when they saw the tall figures of Feinstein and her husband saunter into the restaurant. Feinstein immediately came over, threw out her arms and said, grinning, "C'mon, John, you ole curmudgeon, give me a kiss!" Barbagelata complied. "What could I do?" he says ruefully. "She's a charmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIANNE FEINSTEIN: Charm Is Only Half Her Story | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...natty charmer, and Germaine yearned for his affection. But, probably because she was smart and naturally skeptical, she got little from her wary father except put-downs. Germaine educated herself, went on to a successful career as a scholar, teacher and author. But the early slights -- her father's callousness and failure to confide in her -- still rankle, and she is zestfully candid about her resentments. "Yippee!" she exults when a parental lie comes to light, or "Gotcha!" Yet this glee is tempered by a deep sympathy with the narrow possibilities of her father's life and indeed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gotcha! DADDY, WE HARDLY KNEW YOU by Germaine Greer | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

CLOSER THAN EVER. This musical sampler from lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. and composer David Shire is an off-Broadway charmer deftly performed. Special joys: character songs that actors Brent Barrett and Sally Mayes render as richly nuanced as one-act plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 27, 1989 | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

MADAME SHERRY. Connecticut's revival-oriented Goodspeed Opera House unearths another musical charmer about love, money and mistaken identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 4, 1989 | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

Pleasantly handsome, piercingly intelligent, he was a master manipulator, a silver-tongued charmer who lured women to their deaths, confounded police pursuers and clogged the court system for nearly a decade. Last week, when Ted Bundy was finally strapped into Florida's electric chair and jolted with 2,000 volts of electricity, he paid with his life for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of Kimberly Leach, a twelve-year-old Lake City girl. But if his last-minute confessions prove to be true, the former law student may have killed as many as 50 young women in Utah, Washington, Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Deserve Punishment: Ted Bundy | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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