Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people; through these experience, Jack exposes the tragedy of the Native American experience during this time with dignity and understanding. Some of the more amusing episodes in Jack's life have to do with a certain woman named Amanda, and Jack's attempts to turn his roughness into charm in order to win her. Through it all, Jack admits his mistakes gracefully and keeps his mind open to people very different from himself, while exposing the true natures of other people and events...
...does--while her niece Camille (Glenn Close) is staging a Salome pageant at the First Presbyterian Church. Complications, of the sort Altman has been perping for decades, ensue. And though Neal, Charles S. Dutton (as Neal's best friend) and Liv Tyler (as the town's wild child) have charm to burn, the film mostly simmers. Like Camille's theatricals, the Anne Rapp script dawdles through predictable Southern Gothic plot twists that a real writer like Beth Henley would use to showcase memorably bent characters. Rapp's idea of character comedy is to have the movie's villain literally caught...
...wonders if his face will later be covered in egg. Part of the idea's charm was that Nasubi, 23, didn't know that all Japan was sharing in his desperate antics. But was it real? (Whatever "real" means on TV.) How much did Nasubi, clearly aware of the camera, help contrive his weekly 15 minutes of glory? Was he truly confined all that time? Or is he the Charles Van Doren of Japanese...
...Gore knew he was coming off a bad week, so he wasted little time trying to charm the 165 United Auto Workers union leaders he met last Monday in a smoke-choked Des Moines, Iowa, hotel conference room. "I know what you can do. You know why I'm here," he said. "We need to talk." But as he spoke, an audience that started out polite but skeptical turned hostile. Gore twice deflected questions about whether the global-warming treaty he championed would send jobs overseas and instead served up encomiums about saving the planet. Then Mike Edwards, the assembly...
Certainly his Kosovo strategy has been confounding. In part, says a U.S. official, Milosevic seems closed off to reality. When negotiating, he relies on a mix of charm and tirades about the victimization of the Serbs. Says the official: "Every second sentence is wrong or a lie. He pours out his soul, but you don't know if he believes all that rubbish." He never says yes or no, never puts his own name to a formal agreement. While his vicious behavior in Kosovo has evoked comparison to Hitler, those who know him say Milosevic doesn't dream so large...