Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feeling cramped in your dorm room? Cure the claustrophobia with a waltz through the luxurious Newport mansions, former homes to the rich and famous. The estate-lined Bellevue Avenue combines the charm of the Victorian Era with the splendor of the sea. Stay at a charming bed-and-breakfast (B&B) tucked along the avenue and indulge in the decadence of the Victorian Age. If anything, this brief encounter with age-old opulence will inspire you to study harder...
...Brook Inn--Located 20 minutes from the bustling Mystic Port, this B&B is a pleasant retreat if you're sick of the sea. Colonial in style and perfect in charm...
...Black raced through the '60s on cocaine and booze, achieving greatness despite a wild chemical imbalance and a damn ugly face. Bob Dylan represented the ultimate achievement of the man-and-his-guitar dream. Thoughts of matching his lyrics, his playing and his doobie-laced charm have always been more than enough to keep me going...
Giuliani, who may be the only Italian in the Greater New York area with no trace of personal charm, cannot be imagined in La Guardia's most memorable mayor-as-character role--reading the funnies to the city's children during a newspaper strike. We can picture him instead lecturing children about wasting their time on funnies or maybe even arresting them for reading the funnies. We can picture him saying those who disagree with him on the funnies issue are irredeemably corrupt human beings...
...tasty beverage arises, Billings & Stover also features a soda fountain complete with banana splits ($4.59) and root beer floats ($2.45). A truly New England establishment, Billings & Stover makes the distinction between a frappe (with ice cream) and a shake (without ice cream), a detail which just adds to the charm...