Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Farley, the aroma is nothing if not enticing. By one count, he's tried to get versions of the bill through Congress six times in recent years. Perhaps seven's the charm...
...volatile team of medics in Bringing Out the Dead is often more battered and disturbed than the patients spewed from the streets are. John Goodman as Larry enters with his overweight working man's charm and bravado, and the audience is fooled into thinking this will be the routine buddy-cop movie with jolly, fat guy exchanging caustic one-liners with his thinner, but emotionally more substantive, partner. However, as the wheels spin out, the film takes the audience along for a more complex, hellish ride that visits death, madness, and despair on every street corner. Ving Rhames as Marcus...
Losing international markets would be catastrophic for the U.S. tobacco industry - luckily, for them, smoking hasn't yet lost its discreet charm in the developing world. The World Health Organization on Monday launched negotiations on a treaty to curb worldwide smoking and ban tobacco advertising, hoping to capitalize on the growing anti-smoking sentiment in the U.S. courts and political system. But curbing tobacco use in the developing world may require cultural as well as legal changes. "Despite accusations that the U.S. is dumping poisonous products on unsophisticated markets, a lot of people in the Third World actually like...
Bobby carries his charm onto the floor of the gym as he passes out a rose to each member of the girls' softball team, whose coach has `recently died. Then he strolls over to principal Voss and hands her a bouquet. When the pep rally ends and school is dismissed early for the day, Bobby passes a freshman sitting on the steps outside. He says, "Hey," and waves. To be recognized by a jock like Bobby is a big deal to the kid, who beams. It is part of Bobby's charm. It brings him fame. Bobby climbs into...
DENNIS HASTERT Nailed for $1,000-a-plate b'fast with lobbyists; loses HMO vote. Newt without the charm...