Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against those risks must be measured the President's enduring personal charm and the fact that those attending the meeting are, after all, friends and allies. No matter what thorny discussions come up behind the colonial doors of Williamsburg, the Great Communicator can be expected to put an affable face on them. - By George Russell...
...coveted one-year clerkship with a federal appeals court judge, the young lawyer could not get an offer at a black firm she approached in Montgomery; "sexism," she suspects. So she went into partnership with a white male, and when few took her very seriously, she turned on the charm. "I believe one gets more done," she says, "if the approach is down-home country manners...
...movie adolescent, and his responses to the Government security forces who are convinced he is an enemy agent are full of injured innocence and inventive ripostes. For about two-thirds of its distance, as it places an ordinary kid in an extraordinary situation, WarGames flirts with an E.T.-like charm. One imagines young David heading toward a small, smart, deadly encounter with gum-snapping Dabney Coleman, who plays, with his usual admirable restraint, a true believer in the Pentagon's, and WOPR's, infallibility...
...apologetic for the writings. Penthesilea, Kleist's drama about the clash between Achilles and the Queen of the Amazons on the plain of Troy, does not, as he suggests, combine the best features of Greek tragedy and Shakespeare. It is Kleist's tart little fragments that most charm a reader today. There is, for example, the Swiftian modest proposal for sending messages by artillery and cannon ball, if speed is what everybody wants. There is the marvelously straight-faced account of an ascension in the balloon of Professor J. There is the wonderful little parody of The Sorrows...
Much of Mr. Test's charm derived from the fact that nobody, not even most of the Harvard Administration, knew what he did--or who he was--when he wasn't proctoring exams. Although he monitored tests for no more than a small fraction of the year, one could often run into him during the off season in the back corridors of Mem Hall, his formidable midsection barely contained by a stylish outfit, the obligatory tall bottle of Pepsi at his side...