Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That Deadly Charm...
Dispensing anatomical advice with the charm of a Keebler elf, psychologist Ruth Westheimer delivered a rambling lecture to an audience of 100 at Austin Hall last night...
...smooth fury of Our Time in Eden, the spirit of the group -- its distinctive combination of stylistic orneriness and sandblasted lyricism -- remains undiminished. 10,000 Maniacs has always been hard to classify. That's an integral part of the band's charm, and so is the obvious pride with which its members nourish their idiosyncrasy. Still, they have enjoyed a heartening commercial success, which should increase nicely with Our Time in Eden. It sounds like their best album yet. But for a group that exists so safely away from trends, it's the afterlife of the music that counts...
Just so. The Kennedy whom Hamilton pieces together from interviews, letters and memoirs is a blithe cynic whose wit and charm are substitutes for intimacy. "Were you ever in love?" a woman asks him later in his life. His smooth answer: "No, though often very interested...
...Queen inherited little of her mother's charm or her publicity smarts (to this day when the old lady travels in the ceremonial horse-drawn coach, tiny, hidden bulbs highlight her face). The present Queen's props have become national jokes -- the pack of corgis, the kerchief, the ever present purse with nothing in it, least of all cash. Like her father, she is shy. A recent TV show detailing her routines, Elizabeth R, has a painful vignette of the Queen visiting an old people's home. She asks one elderly soul, who is obviously not dressed for the street...