Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funny as on her TV series, but misses the pain of a woman who has spent her life being upstaged by a beautiful younger sister. Morgan Freeman in buckskins looks, and acts, far removed from his role as the prim chauffeur in Driving Miss Daisy. He finds both the charm and the meanness in his man, speaks beautifully and chortles through the obligatory feminist postlude, when Ullman ends a speech about happy submission by "accidentally" sending him sprawling...
Joseph Fernandez, who has just completed his first semester as New York City's schools chancellor, is often compared with Mikhail Gorbachev. Like the Soviet President, Fernandez is using a combination of personal charm and high- handedness to reform a system nearly paralyzed by its own plethoric bureaucracy. Fernandez's brand of perestroika is called "school-based management," a system that allows those closest to the classroom to oversee budgets and set curriculums largely free of centralized control. "The idea is to give schools more latitude," says the chancellor, "because generally they will make better decisions than we will...
...murder trial -- and when the don seduces Mrs. Sutter. Or is it the other way around? As Sutter wrestles with his instincts and his ethics, the notion of vendetta no longer seems the exclusive property of the Mafia. Nelson DeMille's previous books Word of Honor and The Charm School demonstrated an ability to sustain tension; this one adds a smart social eye and an unfailing sense of humor...
...darkened the region for nearly a half-century, it is the fact that communist centralized planning never brought quite the mechanization of agriculture that is taken for granted in the West. This may not provide much comfort for the people of the bloc, but it has left a certain charm for a generation from the West that tends to associate horses with racetracks or riding schools, and cows with feedlots and automated milking sheds...
Gypsy wagons rolling down a main road, plows pulled by oxen, and other Bruegelesque scenes lend charm to Romania, Hungary and the rest of the East bloc. But be prepared for inconveniences and overcrowding...