Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charm or poise ambition, leadership or self-confidence...
...there was any overpowering imperative in Cunanan's life, it was envy: of someone else's money, lover, looks, friends, life, happiness. If he saw things he wanted, he would worm his way toward them, through charm, intrusion and lies, traversing divergent worlds to possess or, as it turns out, to destroy. A flamboyant presence in Hillcrest, San Diego's gay district, he was also once "employed" by a member of Gamma Mu, the exclusive and discreet fraternity of rich gay men. Even as he mingled with closeted military men at San Diego's naval base, he knew...
...only one man in Washington who can stop Jesse Helms and possibly salvage Governor William Weld's troubled nomination to be ambassador to Mexico. It turns out to be a woman. Ever since her gooey confirmation hearings, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has made it her business to charm the courtly porcupine who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, eschewing the diplomatic handshake in favor of kissing his Moon Pie face (both cheeks) and interrupting her global travels to tour his home state, where she gave the Jesse Helms Lecture at Wingate University, Helms' alma mater. As Helms and Albright...
...comes a real test of the Albright charm offensive. Because of Helms' opposition, the Weld nomination was considered dead on arrival when the White House formally submitted his name last week. In June, Helms had said publicly that the Massachusetts Governor was below "ambassador quality" and that he did not want to send drug-soaked Mexico a man he characterized as soft on drugs. (Weld approves of medicinal marijuana.) Although a fiscal conservative, Weld is too liberal on things like abortion and gay rights to pass muster with Helms. And the Senator still harbors a grudge against Weld, a former...
...pleaser of a movie that's guaranteed to appeal as much to American audiences as it did to the Japanese. It's easy to see why: as entertainment, it pulls off just the right blend of the comic and the earnest, and dance movies have always had a certain charm, from Fred Astaire to "Strictly Ballroom." But what makes "Shall We Dance?" really interesting is its subtle illustration of the social-cultural fabric of its story, so different in crucial ways from that familiar to most Western viewers...