Word: charming
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...best healing power lies in her self. She is in full possession of easy-life charm, and it is her "winning streak" of a life that she passes on to her daughter Sophia and to Margaret: "I trusted my grandmother. Everything she had ever said had been true, and I had long since learned to do whatever she told me to do. Trusting her to guide me . . . was like falling backward like her chloroformed women, knowing that not only would I be caught, but I would be caught before I realized I was falling...
...Satan tackled Eve has somebody gone after a person as hard as he'll go after you"), through the Depression and into World War II, Gibbons paints this medicine woman in colors as pungent as mashed garlic, as envigorating as sarsaparilla, and as soothing as lemon-balm tea. The charm for the reader is that there is still such a thriving population of Southern women left in the author's well-healed imagination...
...inevitable, however, for Aspin is not everybody's cup of tea. Many members of Congress, especially in the liberal wing, believe he betrayed them by supporting such weapons systems as the B-2 and Strategic Defense Initiative. For all his charm, he is a loner, a shy person who finds it distasteful to court constituents. "Don't try to describe Les as a real human being," says an associate with a laugh. His big smile and firm abrazo notwithstanding, he isn't captivated with small talk. Says a friend, "As he whispers in your ear, his thoughts...
...when she discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. In the usual sitcom way, her real family is at the office, where she shares quarters, oddly, with a bald-headed chiropractor and an aggressive divorce lawyer (Treat Williams -- boy, this is sad). Long still has her bristly charm, but the vehicle has little...
This much lauded movie has some of young Scalici's sullenly vixenish charm. But Stolen Children is also a little too pat in its direction and characterizations and in its dramatic arc from bondage to liberation to mute acceptance of fate's bureaucratic whims. For a movie that worms inside a child's hopes and fears, that understands how kids can be both shaped by their family and in righteous rebellion against it, you should see -- immediately -- Leolo...