Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their joy to outrage. In an afternoon ritual that showed no sign of abating, they pelted Milosevic's ministries with snowballs, eggs and paper airplanes while serenading his government's empty office windows with catcalls, whistles, kazoos and jeers. Prominent among them was Djindjic, 44, his charisma, intellect and charm suddenly allowed full play in what had become not only a Serbian theater but also a world forum. Foreigners were even learning to pronounce his name (the dj sounds like the g in ginger). By last week the remarkable display had some crowd watchers looking for signs of similarity with...
...star rap concert. Denzel Washington, an angel on loan to a fretful preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and his pretty wife (Whitney Houston), is really here to sell the miracle of star quality. In his gorgeous silver three-piece suit, Washington makes niceness sexy. His fellow teachers in this charm-school film are Houston, with her 60 beautiful teeth; old pro Jenifer Lewis as the requisite sassy grandma and, in the Grinch role, Gregory Hines, his magnificently phony smile romanticizing each act of venality...
Despite the fact that we are again in the midst of an Undergraduate Council popular presidential election, readers have raised nary a whisper about The Crimson's campaign coverage this time around. Perhaps the second time's a charm for Crimson reporters. On the other hand, maybe this year's less vigorous campaign is simply producing less controversy...
...always. Ray Loewen once invited SCI's founder, Robert Waltrip, aboard, and the two men, both wearing yachtsman's caps, almost came to blows. O'Keefe likewise failed to appreciate the charm. Over a sumptuous dinner, O'Keefe told Loewen he did not want a fight and proposed a number of ways to resolve the dispute. But Loewen, he says, turned the evening into an effort to persuade him to sell his own best funeral homes. At one point, he says, Loewen boasted how he maneuvered John Wright to sell the Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home by threatening to build...
Most of these people can't sing any better than you or I, but that's part of the movie's charm and a lot of its point. They all want their life to be set to a soaring score by Kern or Gershwin; they all want to believe that there is an authentic possibility of romance when they visit Paris or Venice; they all hope for the kind of transformative musical epiphanies that would suddenly be vouchsafed Kelly or Astaire as they soft-shoed through their happier--or anyway more stylized--realities...