Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth, to charm those who would love her and poison those who would enslave...
...cold steals much of the charm from walking, a popular activity during warmer months. The Cambridge Council on Aging bus, which often takes a group of walkers to the boardwalk on Reverse Beach, slows down during the winter, Russell said...
...have Peters, so good at winsome vulnerability, play a character so hard and snarly. From the opening number, in which she rages at being abandoned by a live-in boyfriend, to the contrived quarrel with her new paramour a few moments before the finale, her angst always outshouts her charm. A third goof was to have Short start out really neurotic, as Richard Dreyfuss was in his Oscar-winning film portrayal, but turn into Caspar Milquetoast (or Ed Grimley) within minutes. The domestic frictions that made the film funny simply disappear...
...intensity as an advocate and negotiator, Kantor has a shambling charm that can be disarming. He was, for example, spotted making an early departure from a book party in Washington last week, absent the usual coterie of handlers and instead lugging his briefcase and dry-cleaning into the soggy night like any other commuter. He uses self-deprecating humor, sometimes muttering about his mistakes -- "Kantor muffs another one!" -- as if he were a play-by-play announcer. But Kantor still has the sharp reflexes that served him well as a shortstop, and he's determined that nothing is going...
...same lines in somebody else's mouth would seem insulting. But there's that charm with Bill, that magical quality, and you like him anyway. He can get away with things. I'm sure he's been doing it his whole life. He's very good...