Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having attained the gigantic height of 5'6" by the age of thirteen, I was not exactly prime slow dance material. My smile (a mouthful of metal) and my hair (in the process of growing out) didn't add much charm to my shiny visage...
...formed by pairing people whose answers to 35 revealing questions match most closely. My simple dollar will buy the most precious knowledge of all--the name of that man, and nine others like him, who has been pining away for me, his missing half. Will he have the boyish charm of Hugh Grant, the rhythm of the artist formerly known as Prince and the body of a Baldwin brother...
Dole, Gramm and Alexander are still playing by the traditional rules even as Forbes sets out to rewrite them. Until now the confounding charm of early primary races was that for once the candidates had to go full retail, shaking every hand in Iowa, trolling through the north-country diners, meeting real voters face to face who would take their measure in their own sweet time. No one could ever afford to launch a full-scale air war so early; the candidates typically have held a substantial chunk of their limited funds in reserve for broadcast battles in the Super...
Maybe a little of both. But sooner rather than later, "his irresistible Irish-American charm" and his "overwhelming, unstoppable energy" (Donen's phrases) blew away your reservations. For there was always something disarming in the forthright way that Kelly, who was born in Pittsburgh, the third of five children, and worked his way up out of the chorus line to Broadway stardom with his tough, taut performance in 1940's Pal Joey, stated his needs and his aspirations. These extended beyond the standard American desire to transcend one's past and transform one's limitations. For he was part...
...with a masterly display of chic invention and exquisite attention to fit; the pick of the supermodel pack were on hand, and they never looked prettier. At Dior, Gianfranco Ferre chose a theme of flowers--surely an invitation to cliche--and turned out a collection with lightness and youthful charm. Christian Lacroix produced a rhapsodic meditation on the skirt, recasting his famous pouf, draped rather than puffed. His was the loveliest collection in Paris...