Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands tremble slightly now, and the flesh around his eyes makes them seem smaller than they really are, heightening an occasional glare, muffling his frequent shy smiles. Yet Janos Kadar still displays the same unexpected charm and cool canniness that have helped make the onetime typewriter mechanic the boldest and most beloved leader in Eastern Europe. Wearing a tailored gray suit and a wine-red silk tie, Kadar chain-smoked Symphonia cigarettes while talking for two hours with a group of TIME visitors in his office in Budapest's Central Committee headquarters. Any initial reserve that the General Secretary displayed...
...from Her Majesty, Duke and Duchess of York. Five years ago, when Prince Charles took Lady Diana Spencer for his wife, the occasion was rich with fairy-tale solemnity. As the heir to the throne exchanged troths with a bashful girl just past her teens, it seemed that Prince Charming rode with Sleeping Beauty in a coach of glass. When Charles' younger brother and Diana's fourth cousin wed last week, it was a jollier occasion, a larkish high-society romance scripted by P.G. Wodehouse. No foreign heads of state were present, and no national holiday was declared. Instead...
...surface and no substance, and finally he distances himself from Mark, his face going slack in a kind of moral torpor. But when he smiles at Rachel like a cat with Tweety Pie feathers on his lips or croons nonsense to his firstborn, Nicholson reveals the charm that hides the folly. You can hate Mark for his cruelty or love him for his robust grace and fine, sharp humor. Same with this movie...
...also get Peter O'Toole, who as the Island's British Governor, manages to prostitute a little more of his so frightfully English charm for another movie contract...
...keep Molly. She testifies at the trial: "I'd be willing not to see Mr. Cutter again." Romantic heroines, after all, are supposed to choose emotion over responsibility. But that was when there were suitable romantic heroes. Try as she might, Anna cannot convey the magic and charm she perceives in Leo. To the nonsmitten observer, he seems to be little more than a foul-mouthed idler and sponge, an unmitigated egotist who is capable of remarking, when Anna tells him that their lovemaking has resulted in pregnancy, "I'm just not anxious to have any kid. There...