Word: charming
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...perhaps the greatest charm of this book for the average Harvard reader is the sense of familiarity one feels with the character types and locations. As an introspective senior preparing for my final departure from these hallowed halls, the imagery offered by “Guilty” nicely complements my pre-nostalgic state of mind...
...title of Bishop Allen’s debut album may be “Charm School”, but co-frontman Christian T. Rudder ’98 (and founder of the wildly successful website thespark.com) insists that it is not a winking reference to his alma mater: “[Charm School] is not an allusion to Harvard. Harvard is definitely not a charm school—if anything it’s the opposite...
Rudder describes Bishop Allen’s sound as “pop/rock” and cites Blondie as an influence. Nevertheless, tracks from Charm School like “Little Black Ache,” “Eve of Destruction,” and “Busted Heart” evoke “The Moon and Antarctica”-era Modest Mouse...
...Gallo researchers and Grey Advertising executives to southern France, Gallo coined an evocative name--Red Bicyclette--and devised a friendly label with a fun cartoon of a Frenchman in a beret riding a red bike with a dog trailing behind him, a baguette in its mouth. Voil: French charm with none of the intimidation factor. (Compare that label with, say, the one for Domaine de Montcalms Coteaux du Languedoc AOC, a wine from the same area.) The back label was just as friendly: "Bonjour! Welcome to Red Bicyclette, from a little corner of the very best place in France...
...that kind of juxtaposition is precisely the charm of Zhongdian's cocktail circuit. With steep, cobbled lanes, wooden houses, courtyards and prayer flags fluttering in the wind, Dukezong was little more than a ramshackle residential area of 15,000 inhabitants two years ago. Now, it's being buffed and polished for the outside world, with B-52 cocktails served alongside bai jiu-the local firewater-and macchiatos almost as readily available as yak-butter tea. The bars attract a lively, mixed crowd of residents, young travelers, artists and adventurers, doubtless hoping to find their own Shangri-La. Chances are they...