Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clintonian 1990s, the President and his wife aren't the only Washington couple whose careers are brilliantly synergistic. Here's a list of some of the others, ranked by their GorbScore, a rating from 1 to 10 derived from a formula that measures the couple's influence and charm, using as a benchmark the models of modern power partnership, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev...
Gardini's upbringing led him to agricultural college; afterward he joined the firm of Ravenna grain dealer Serafino Ferruzzi. His charm, ambition and business flair brought him rapid promotion -- as well as marriage in 1957 to the boss's eldest daughter, Idina, which guaranteed that he would inherit company leadership from Ferruzzi, who died...
Nude Men is startlingly devoid of wit and singularly lacking in charm. Filipacchi's labored prose fails to update the idiom. There are no signal insights; little that is fresh or new. Filipacchi transforms what could have been a fascinating treatment of dealing with the consequences of dark, neurotic visions and succumbing to temptations into a turgid mess...
Iraqi officials say they have been trying to settle their differences with the U.S. since Bill Clinton was inaugurated. "Some of us thought Clinton would concentrate on domestic policy and ease the pressure on us," says a high-ranking Iraqi official. But Saddam's charm offensive, which included a pledge not to challenge aircraft over no-fly zones in southern and northern Iraq, found no favor in Washington. "The Iraqis were hoping that sooner or later, if they did not provoke Washington, the U.S. and its Arab allies would realize they need a strong Iraq to counterbalance Iran," says...
...postcard-perfect contrast extends far beyond the court, however. Barkley, as he solemnly intones in a controversial new television commercial (he wears controversy like a second skin), is "not a role model." He is "paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court." And off. Barkley's charm -- and his curse -- is to be as free and spontaneous with his mind as with his body, and to throw off wisecracks and elbows in a barrage of no-nonsense, forward-driven bursts of speed that threaten always to whirl out of control. At the Olympic Games last year, one of the most...