Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baskin Robbins probably needs less introduction than its fancier counterparts. As it proudly boasts, it has more than 2600 outlets nationwide. Still, simplicity has its own charm. Sometimes a burger at a greasy diner satisfies the palate more aptly than does nouvelle cuisine at a black tie eaterie...
Some rainy day take the time to explore Harvard's museums. While the Fogg Art Museum does not quite rival Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in terms of size or scope, it still has its own special charm. The Fogg's travertine courtyard is modeled after an Italian Renaissance palace...
...tiny that the barrel of his M-16 rifle is sawed in half so he can carry it. It is still almost as long as he is. He has a florid tattoo on his right arm -- a premature badge of manhood that also serves as an animist charm to ward off evil. Sometimes Kyaw Lin is shaky and feverish because, like most of his comrades, he suffers from bouts of malaria. Nobody is there to wipe his brow or take his temperature; he just lies in his bunker until the fever subsides and he can return to fighting the Burmese...
...Mars, toward the end, that Total Recall slows down to tie up its plot and provide each villain with an appropriately gruesome demise. It goes wussily misterioso when Quaid meets a Yodaesque guru. But even when the film flirts with becoming ordinary, it is propelled by the stolid charm of Schwarzenegger, who carries the whole movie as easily as a dumbbell between his fingers...
...have the highest regard, admiration andaffection for President Bok," Gregorian said. "Iwill miss his wit and charm and intellect...