Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIRD time seems to be the charm for Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Their first encounter in Geneva two years ago was little more than a chance for the leaders of the two superpowers to get to know eachother and produced no tangible results. Their last meeting, last fall in Reykjavik, Iceland, was a disaster. Before his aides interceded, an unprepared and uncomprehending Reagan agreed in principle to the dismantling of the entire American arsenal if only the Soviets acquiesced to his desire to proceed with the Strategic Defense Initiative. Now, one year later, the two will sign a treaty...
Gardner makes the perfect Stanley. He's certainly got the physique for it, but he's also got the charm down pat. After all, if Stanley's such a boor, why would anyone fall-and remain-madly in love with him? Gardner answers that question by making himself attractive and intelligent underneath the uncouth veneer. Ethan Mintz as a friend of Stanley's who falls in love with Blanche is equally superb, though his accent is practically nonexistent...
...there are 15 songs from 15 top stars of four countries. But despite the stars' varying homelands, this LP's charm comes from its being so American, in the full-blown commercial sense. The artists from other countries (Sting and U2, among others) have for the most part been more successful in the US than abroad...
...ONLY is the Fogg itself a building of great whimsical charm, being vaguely neoclassical on the outside and surprisingly Italmate on the inside, but it also houses a collection for which many of the great museums of the world would give their proverbial eye teeth. At present several of the Fogg's outstanding collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings are on display, including a super group of recently restored Rossettis. For those who favor pouting, melancholy women, this should be just the thing, especially as they are displayed alongside detailed descriptions of how they were painted and--a cheering thought...
...Fogg is an absolutely failproof way to forget that you are at Harvard and about as frazzled as the appalling weather and your failing academics can make you. Its interior has a sunny but peaceful Mediterranean charm that at least allows you to pretend its warm outside. And on those truly horrid days you can always go and look at Toulouse-Lautrec's "The Hangover" whereupon you will undoubtedly be much consoled. And if even that doesn't work you may go and empathize with Van Gogh's absolutely terrifying self-portrait...