Word: charmers
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...good museum director must be a clever sleuth and a keen scholar, bold but tasteful, charlatan enough to fool his competitors, discreet in his dealings, a master charmer, a canny politician, greedy, and above all, always right in his purchases. Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, Sherman E. Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately...
...TIME calls Whitman "the perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent U.S. history." What about the charmer who a few years ago put a bomb in his mother's airborne suitcase and sent 44 innocents to a terrifying death...
...Chief Nanga who is really most at home in pidgin. As a student, Odili had disapproved of Chief Nanga for his demagoguery and his "ignorance," but it is hard for a young schoolteacher to feel superior to his old school-and-scoutmaster now that the wily old charmer has a house with seven bathrooms and an official Cadillac with chauffeur...
...figures: the priest and the politician. The priest, astringently played by Barnard Hughes, is torn by a mixture of pity and contempt for his people, and he exerts his authority as though he were a bouncer in a perpetually unruly bar. The politician, an arm-twisting, Jim Curley-like charmer, played with resourceful guile by Tom Ahearne, has one key speech in which he punctuates a list of catastrophes with the words...
...Kipps (Tommy Steele) is an 'umble cockney draper's clerk who comes into a hunexpected inheritance, takes up wif a girl (Carrie Nye) from the local haristocracy and proceeds to get engaged. After a heady spell of high life, Kipps is disillusioned and marries a non-U charmer of a chambermaid (Polly James) from his own class. But his ex-fiancée's caddish brother absconds with Kipps's last thruppence. Presto! An alcoholic playwright whom he once befriended showers him with a handsome percentage of the royalties from his first hit play...