Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even at the time of his first nomination four years ago, Clinton generated more electricity than he does today. Journalists were still impressed by his doggedness, his intelligence and policy enthusiasm, his charm. The newly acquainted public warmed to his family and his life story...
...Dole." It was a teeny preview of her big night this week,when the 38-year-old is scheduled to deliver the convention's keynote speech. Dole's pick of the pro-choice and pro-gun-control legislator rankled his right flank, but Dole knew what he was getting: charm, energy, even some star power as a Friend of Newt's. Her talent is partly rooted in her genes: she inherited her father's Staten Island seat in a 1990 special election. Her stature was sealed when Representative Bill Paxon took the floor to propose to her, on bended knee...
...true champion when her bronzed rival in the 400 m, Falilat Ogunkoya, teared up as she thought of the mother she had just lost and Perec warmly hugged her (while a volunteer fetched a Kleenex). Japanese said "Muchas gracias" to Cuban baseball players, and the Cubans responded, with typical charm, "Domo arigato." Charles Barkley gave his practice jersey to the 14-year-old daughter of Alice Hawthorne, the woman killed in Atlanta's bombing...
...COLBERT, 92, effervescent star of an earlier Hollywood; at her home in Barbados. In films that included such classic comedies as It Happened One Night (for which she won an Oscar) and The Palm Beach Story, as well as a pre-Liz Taylor Cleopatra, she played women who, through charm and technique, had to persuade society that they were something other, better, more glamorous than they really were. In doing so, she became the epitome of couture elegance and city-girl pluck. The Colbert heroine walked the earth in sensible shoes and met each adversity with a throaty, musical laugh...
...piece on the opening night of the prestigious, snooty Salzburg Festival, not far from one of the Alpine lakes where Mahler composed the sprawling, five-movement work a century ago. Predictably, some critics did dismiss the event forthwith. "A multimillionaire's cold flirt," complained one; "no trace of Viennese charm," groused another. Austrians have long been loath to admit that anyone other than themselves can properly perform the Austro-German classics, and few would care to admit to an American's mastery...