Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...superstitious, sarcastic man, sometimes rotten to his children, often beastly to his women. He had contempt for women artists. His famous remark about women being "goddesses or doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but women tended to walk into both roles open-eyed and eagerly, for his charm was legendary. Whole cultural industries derived from his much mythologized virility. He was the Minotaur in a canvas-and-paper labyrinth of his own construction...
CHRYSLER BUILDING, 1930 Architect: William Van Alen Manhattan's Roman-candle skyscraper, with hubcaps for gargoyles and one of the most recognized crowns anywhere, is 1,048 ft. of shimmering charm...
William F. Weld '66 capped of a day of speeches at yesterday afternoon's College Class Day ceremonies with the wit and charm that made him a popular governor of Massachusetts...
...fought him on the size of it until I saw it. The whole charm was the big size of the bird," she says...
...hard sell for a film in which the megamanic star is an actor, for Pete's sake. But The Truman Show is the best kind of risk: make a good movie and see who comes. And Carrey will be waiting for them, with a performance of profound charm, innocence, vulnerability and pain. The early word on Truman is so positive that one exhibitor dares to invoke a hit 1994 film about another man out of his time: "This picture has Gump written all over...