Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same in the theater of politics. If we accidentally glimpse animal masculinity there--the Tasmanian devil of male desire--it is like stumbling upon secret squalor, the hand under the table, the old Packwood charm. A public exposure of the full horror of male desire sometimes leads to public relations catastrophes. On the other hand, Bill Clinton has shown that such storms can be weathered without noticeable damage...
...Home are the restrained naturalism of its playing; its gentle, unforced direction by Carroll Ballard; and above all its imagery, shot by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, of Amy, Tom and the birds in flight. At once comic and soaring, artful and artless, these scenes lift us from earthbound disbelief and charm our acquiescence in the sweetest of adventures...
...money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof with Damon Wayans, graduate of another TV sketch show, In Living Color, and a person of actual charm and talent...
...time he parted ways with Clinton in 1990, Morris was a solo operator who worked almost exclusively for Republicans. His partnership with Dresner had ended badly--he left the firm in 1982, shortly before it went bankrupt--and his combative nature had burned many bridges. Morris has considerable charm--along with deep knowledge of history and an abiding love of all things French--but he used it on candidates, not on their campaign teams...
...Hughie? A fellow who used to work the desk, someone who took interest in Erie's mutterings, or seemed to. Hughie is dead now, so Erie elegizes a man he thought brought him luck. Like most elegies, this one is about the mourner. Erie needs a new lucky charm. If he can connect with this clerk--turn their parallel monologues into a dialogue--the gambler might be a winner again...