Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charm survive the harsher spotlight of the winner's circle? Already questions are being raised about Gingrich's chairmanship of GOPAC, an organization that some assert is devoted solely to promoting Gingrich and his ideas. His Democratic challenger in Georgia two weeks ago claimed that GOPAC spends nearly $2 million a year and was illegally contributing four times as much to candidates as was permitted by law. Says Gingrich: "We legally obey every regulation. I understand my critics are fixated and pathologically disoriented, but they're my opponents. Why would I try to correct that?" As for the substance...
...gracious hostess. Cedras, a notably bloody and ruthless man on a bloody, miserable island, should go and teach Carter's Sunday school class sometime. Carter, citizen of the world, seems to have missed class the day we learned that even a character like Hitler can turn on the charm...
There is, of course, a certain twisted charm to rainy days. They make the pleasures of a morning spent in bed or a steaming cup of tea (particularly in those fabulous new dining hall mugs) all the more evident. And one could view the endless drizzle and fog as the final symptom of Harvard's incurable institutional Anglophilia...
...necklace of Rocky Mountain resorts. Here, each square foot of real estate today fetches a ransom. Gone to outrageously priced condos are the apartments the help used to rent -- and there is scant room left to build more. The reason is location, location, location: these picturesque hamlets beckon and charm and cost the earth because they are usually isolated and they often cannot grow, surrounded -- especially in the Rockies -- by federal lands that are vertical. And where the private land flattens out sufficiently, the people with bulging purses are putting up $1 million log cabins. So the help either commutes...
...storybook debut. In 1988 the Metropolitan Opera needed a last-minute replacement for Kathleen Battle in L'Elisir d'Amore. It turned to an apprentice in its young-artists program named Dawn Upshaw. The audience cheered, and the critics raved about Upshaw's charm and freshness; she seemed set for a predictable rise in the soubrette roles of grand opera. But Upshaw had ideas of her own. A few years earlier, one of her voice teachers, Jan DeGaetani, had told her to "seek your own path." Upshaw took that advice. From Mozart to Stravinsky to show tunes, she sings...