Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STEVE FORBES G.O.P. presidential dark horse vaults to No. 3 in New Hampshire polls on nothing but charm, grit and $25 million...
Davis' sincerity compensates for an underdeveloped script, and his usually unassuming charm makes up for spotty execution. It's neither offensive nor challenging--it is a mild version of familiar ideas without a lot of importance attached. It's one guy's sincere confession and the gesture is refreshing...
Take all of this, throw it together, and you have...a couple of funny jokes. Some cute lines. A lot of graphic and trashy sexual references. But no charm, no life, no believability, and very little humor...
Beethoven's contemporaries declared that the Seventh Symphony could only have been composed by one who was drunk, perhaps alluding to Beethoven's unusual obsession with the rhythmic qualities of this composition. In that light, Kleiber presents a reading replete with charm and joyful abandon, tempered with sensitivity and intelligence...
...alt.drunken.bastards from discussing the finer points of cheap beers, or the readers of the newsgroup alt.philosophy.zen from striving towards greater spirituality. In fact, it is the free-flowing, gossipy nature of these electronic communities, the specific absence of an underlying profit motive, that gives them their strength and charm...