Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN I received my invitation to the annual "Champagne Brunch" early last week, I was excited about going. Really, I was Getting together with all my freshmen entrymates had a certain charm to it, a sense of recapturing my youth...
...unity began to fade. Minnesota Democrat James Oberstar, chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, met with Davis last week and later said the billionaire's promise to build a major airline-repair center in Minnesota makes the bid "a very attractive offer." But Davis will need all his charm and cash to persuade the defiant Northwesterners...
...thanks to cable television, which beams preseason games back home, and to attractions such as Disney World, which draws millions of affluent tourists to Florida, spring training is becoming big business. That approach could threaten the easy charm of the national pastime, but so far, the sport seems to be succeeding on both offense and defense...
While not quite as obtrusive, Emily Cousins' Cecily seems to prove that the soul of country charm is banality; like Townley, she eschews the highly stylized approach and instead disappears behind the more charismatic performers...
...anger came first, but it is not an easy emotion for playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Her natural instinct is to charm, to disarm, to retreat from harm. The nervous giggles, the wispy, high-pitched voice, the ingratiating brown eyes and perhaps even the plump figure all seem protective camouflage. For Wasserstein, self-mocking humor has always been the first line of defense against both the judgment of others and her enveloping Jewish family, which cannot understand why a nice girl like Wendy is not married with children at 38. Even her closest friends sometimes find her hard to take entirely seriously...