Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the sins that Brinkley describes as characterizing Washington before the war have not left us. And in the cold light of the present they have not a trace of charm about them...
BLACK voters have made a mistake by sitting out the last two elections. And once again, if instructed by Jesse Jackson, they may be tempted to sit at home again. But maybe the third time will be a charm. Sitting at home will leave the presidency in the hands of others. Whether or not if Jackson gives the go ahead, Blacks must vote all-out for the candidate with their interests at heart...
...Sybil has a lot of friends on the team," Scalise said. "The team really respects her. She was like one of the team members. She's very warm and charming. Hopefully, she will charm them into fast times...
...paradox of this campaign is that Bush, for all his youthful grace and charm, is now displaying neither. The effortless way he assumed leadership at Andover and Yale has vanished. By contrast, Dukakis, who lacked Bush's early ease, is having some success using the determination from his early days to master the political art of appearing warm...
...pleasing character lines on the film's familiar muscular framework. The script, by Hill, Harry Kleiner and Troy Kennedy Martin, manages to work a little human plausibility, even poignancy, into a couple of cop-movie stereotypes: the black dope lord and the villain's duped wife. Belushi mines quick charm out of his surly role. And Arnold, starched tongue in cheek, is a doll: G.I. Joe in Soviet mufti. He could beat the stuffing out of a toy Rambo...