Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Determined to discover the family's elusive charm, I reached for the nearest concilliari: the On-line Mafia Guide. You could create a small (albeit criminally insane) nation from the number of mafia fans on the web. From "John Gotti's Homepage" to "Gangster Mansion," the devout are eager to share the legacy of "La Cosa Nostra," even with a confessed Irish girl from upstate...
America loves the don, and it is because of his tough-guy charm, his dare-to-be-great nastiness, that the film will continue to draw crowds decades after its original release. On March 21, hundreds of Americans will pour into theaters, eager to give in to the devils seated firmly on their shoulders, ready to re-live Brando's old-world pout and Pacino's charged stare, eager to sink their teeth into the juicy multi-hour saga of men behaving oh-so-badly...
...Smaller games like 'Tetris' are challenging and a lot more addictive in the long run," Condit says, nothing that the sheer number of "Tetris" clone games are evidence of the game's staying power and irresistible charm...
Though it usually makes little sense to dispute the judgments made in an arts review, in the case of "The Empire Falls Short" (Feb. 27), Benjamin Cavell's substantive mistakes mar his aesthetic evaluations. I would agree with his assertion that computer-generated scenes seem jarringly incongruous with the charm of the original Star Wars movies. However, Mr. Cavell's main source of disappointment--the new footage of the wampa creature on Hoth--is actually not a computer-generated (CG) creation. Rather, just as in the good old days of film-making, an actor got dressed up in a wampa...
...vision of the China he wanted to build, or possibly at the memory of some past indignity he had survived on his roller-coaster ride between history and oblivion. His hands gestured constantly, and until his family stopped him, he chain-smoked. To those in thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny--did not seem to diminish him, partly because he exuded enormous energy and sharp focus...