Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even at 19 Masson seemed to have the ability to charm the authorities and at the same time rebel against them--an ability that served him well when he moved into the psychoanalytic field. But at Harvard, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, he studied Sanskrit...
...balanced" teaching, it must be seen first and foremost as an assault on academic freedom. In the future, Mr. Lagon would not have professors present opinions and interpretations that they honestly believe are true; instead, they would have to strive for "balance." Of course, "balance" has a certain seductive charm, for it seems inherently fair--but this allure dissipates as soon as one begins seriously to ask what "balance" means on the practical level or who is to judge when it has been achieved...
...rough-edged Irishman: loving--if slightly clumsy--towards his wife, self-righteous and defensive towards his sons. But his mannerisms and reactions are too stiff and blatant. He gapes to show he's shocked, shouts to show he's angry. He fails to convey Tyrone's appealing undercurrent of charm, or any of his amusing qualities. When he pontificates to Edmund about wasting electricity, only permitting one absurd bulb to be lit, Walker seems so serious, so genuinely frantic, the underlying humor does not come through...
CHAD HUMMEL portrays the penniless, flippantly cynical Jamie with the appropriate swagger and charm. He is a little too confident, through, for a dissipated libertine whose aspirations have all plummeted. Throughout the play he talks loudly and eagerly and when he sits down he slings his leg over his chair and swings it. But all of a sudden in the last scene, he turns into an inebriated mass of insecurity. The quintessential drunkard, he teeters and stumbles as he walks and rolls his eyes as he declares: "'My name is Might Have Been...
...whether there would be a cotillion at the Summer Games. Their lovely exhibition upstaged much of the serious skating ahead and showed how joyless that can be. Not the usual word applied to Scott Hamilton, 25, a happy little dynamo who looks as though he fell off a charm bracelet. Yet it fitted even him. He won the gold medal, but with a wistful shrug said he always imagined it would be "more special." A miscalculation, evidently, involving flips and salchows. Rosalynn Sumners skated beautifully, perfectly in the view of one judge, and narrowly lost to the German Democratic Republic...