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...rival gangs of learned loonies, all in search of Christ's Holy Grail--has some superficial bustle, but essentially it's a course in speculative religious and art history. Somebody talks, the others listen. Those lectures give most of the actors little to do. Ian McKellen, as a crotchety charmer, fares best, because he does most of the talking. Bettany, finding poignancy in murder and masochism, comes in second...
...workers, Saldana was “Frankie”: an easy-going charmer with a palpable drive to succeed...
Those good relations are partly the product of good manners. Belying his oafish appearance, Sharon was a charmer. At the house he shared with his wife Lily until her death in March 2000, on their 1,000-acre ranch on the edge of the Negev Desert, he was an enthusiastic and attentive host. "Please, more lemonade, more cookies," he would insist to visitors...
...fact-finding trip to Asia in February went better than either side expected. Clinton let Bush have the lone bedroom on the Air Force plane--a gesture Bush appreciated. Although Clinton is a well-known raconteur on overseas flights, it turned out that Bush was the charmer on that trip, introducing everyone all around, taking a shine to a couple of Clinton's aides and generally making folks feel at ease. Clinton was more subdued, still recovering from his quadruple-bypass operation five months before, but not so much that he could resist staying up at night playing Oh Hell...
...jungle. Lying on it is a naked woman, her arm outstretched. She luxuriates like Eve in an arabesque of luminous lotus flowers, surrounded by lionesses with gleaming yellow eyes and other half-glimpsed animals from disparate continents. And in the most erotic work on view, the haunting Snake Charmer (1907), a woman's nude figure in dark silhouette stands by a river against an unearthly sunset - or is it moonrise? Flowers and grasses glow with an inner light. Her face is partly hidden by her flute and by the snake draped round her neck - we see only the pale glint...