Word: charming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...public life didn't help Bob Dole, Al Gore or John Kerry sell themselves to the American people. They came across as cranky or boring or stiff, and voters chose the man (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush) who could convincingly play the good ol' boy with southern or Southwest charm. John McCain, who'd been so funny and sunny with his press gang on the Straight Talk Express, turned crotchety in the general campaign and lost to another Harvard smoothie. McCain-Obama was Nixon-Kennedy all over again...
...repository of the straights' resentment that dogged Milk and brought him down. The script by Dustin Lance Black, who worked on HBO's polygamy series Big Love (he was the only Mormon on the writing staff), is all about process: how Harvey Milk changed things. His style was charm mixed with genial bullying. He conveyed passion with good humor. In the movie, challenged by White to answer if two men can reproduce, he replies, "No, but God knows we keep trying." On the streets, he'd pick up a bullhorn and shout, "My fellow degenerates ... my name is Harvey Milk...
...From his days at Cambridge, he was a man on the make. Comments from his profs indicate his charm and their nettled reluctance to surrender to it. "Well-read, quick, keen, industrious," read a judgment from 1927. "I doubt if he has any real originality." The following year: "satisfactory, but a journalist's mind." And in 1932: "I still believe that he is not really a first-class man, but there is no doubt he has an extraordinary capacity for impressing himself on others.... He is very much out for himself, and I should sum him up as a clever...
...third time was the charm on Saturday for Harvard’s cross-country team, as it traveled down to Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, N.Y. for the third time in four weeks and reaped personal best times. The women’s team finished second in the 11-team ECAC Championships field, and out of the 15 teams competing in the men’s IC4A Championships, the men placed 11th. “It was a good note to end on,” Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said. “For so many of our athletes...
...stadium on the waterfront of St. Petersburg, Fla., fell apart, a significant defeat for team officials. They had hoped to have a new home for the team that could draw more season ticket holders. The Rays’ current venue, Tropicana Field, is a cavernous dome that lacks much charm...