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Poor Hart is hardly a charmer and these kids didn't respond. So after 30 seconds of trying he and Flynn came to the business of their visit to the shelter...
...rowdy strains in Frayn's writing and at the same time prefigures Chekhov's later plays, notably The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. The joys this collaboration offers, however, are as much visceral as literary. In chronicling the tomfoolery of a village intellectual, half charmer, half malcontent, Wild Honey provides nonstop bawdy laughter followed by a silencing leap into the abyss...
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...