Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairman Andrew Heiskell shook every money tree in the city. Gregorian restored the splendid beaux arts edifice on 42nd Street, eliminated a years-long lag in cataloging and listed all publications after 1972 on a computer. Then he departed to be president of Brown University where, presumably, he will charm the birds out of the Rhode Island foliage...
...Certain schools will carry a charismatic charm," says Jim Rissing, vice-president of sales for Champion Products. "UCLA, Harvard, Yale have that certain charm. There are certain schools that will transcend any regional boundaries...
Compared with the Republican primary, the Democratic race looks benign. The favorite is Goddard, a three-term mayor whose father Sam was once Governor. With his Jay Rockefeller looks, Jack Kennedy charm and squeaky-clean politics (he now refuses PAC money), Goddard has Democratic presidential hopeful written all over him. This being Arizona, the unmarried Goddard was forced to campaign for mayor by announcing, "I am not gay." A Phoenix newspaper ran a front-page interview with various former girlfriends attesting to his honesty on the point...
...weeks ago, Kryuchkov turned on the charm as he debated with a delegation of Soviet legislators who want to transform the KGB headquarters in Dzherzhinsky Square into a memorial to the victims of Stalin. Referring to the mustard-yellow structure that houses the infamous Lubyanka prison and basement cells where countless innocent people were interrogated and shot, Kryuchkov declared that the KGB is undertaking its own reforms and that "from within its walls come truth, justice, fairness and honesty." While Kryuchkov may not be persuasive enough to revise history, Soviet citizens are amazed at how far the KGB has come...
Then Baldwin and the Whiffles -- an Ur-nerd quartet in plaid cummerbunds and smug smiles -- launch into a rendition of Sh-Boom at the charm-school talent show, and Cry-Baby takes off to parody paradise. It becomes a real musical (new songs, production numbers) and a careering melodrama: Grease with grit. Cliches collide, and so do jalopies; lightning strikes; the jailhouse rocks. Lovers lose themselves in a French-kissing dance that would have been banned on Bandstand...