Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artist and that he has dealt honestly with his own work and his family. And it is disappointing not to learn what Aubrey did all those years during his disappearance except gnaw at old wounds. It seems a vague, washy ending for a work that glories in the charm of specificity...
Haitink's recording of the second symphony begins a little cold-blooded for my taste, perhaps adhering to Brahms' wishes of putting "a black edge around the score to give an outward show of grief," but it quickly picks up more and more of the infectious charm that characterizes this beloved piece...
...danger in the face and figure out how to deal with it and he wouldn't cheat on you. These are the types of men Ford has usually played. In some of his movies, like the "Indiana Jones" series or the "Star Wars" saga, he includes the little boy charm which melts women's hearts and speaks for every man over the age of eight. Here he plays the man who appeals to the older generations. These are the men who wish to be spies, who would like to take on the government, the corporation, the entities which are beyond...
...speaks her mind. When Fabian's father goes away for a summer to earn the money for his son's unwanted wedding, Alaric moves in with the lighthouse keeper, Botho August. He is one of those romantic figments who can coax ships off shoals, seduce women with his silent charm and his gramophone records, and generally alter the chemistry that keeps an isolated community from violence. "A lighthouse keeper held a sacred trust," writes Norman. "Berserk gales, blanket fogs, fairy squalls, even zigzagging water spouts -- weather that had for centuries drowned sailors, lovers, fishermen, and indeed battered Witless Bay countless...
...Robertses' bid ruptured a partnership with Diller that began when Brian Roberts brought the former head of Paramount studios and Fox broadcasting to QVC in December 1992. "Brian was very taken with Barry," says a cable-TV executive, "because when Barry turns on the charm, he can be quite impressive and effective. You have this older guy and this younger kid, and what really must have hurt is when Barry did an about-face. If he had gone to the Robertses and made them feel a part of the CBS deal, this might not have happened...