Word: charming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think its charm is that literally nothing on the site is true,” Flanzraich said...
...Lerenzo D. Tolbert-Malcom ’11, the charm of December’s snow has long since worn...
...recent days, McCain met with his advisers at his ranch, near Sedona, Ariz., to plot a strategy that will keep alive what the campaign sees as its magic: the face-to-face charm that reinvigorated the 71-year-old candidate after his campaign imploded last summer. It is a strategy calling for more bus tours and large group discussions with voters. It also calls for a concerted effort to court voters outside the Republican base--a Barack Obama-like gambit that is already seeping into McCain's public rhetoric...
...each highlight was quickly compromised by an equally disappointing set piece, like the three-minute sequence in which the cast was slowly stalked by two actors half-heartedly portraying giant shoes. The company’s need to pile on meaning often foiled its potential charm. The Bread and Puppet Theater did perform two kids-geared matinees over the weekend—maybe their aesthetic benefited from such thematic simplification.The production had several other redeeming qualities. The action—or lack thereof—played out before a gorgeous painted backdrop of a forest. Throughout...
...same holds true for the rise of McCain. The forces arrayed against him were formidable. Rudy's name, Fred's charm, Mitt's money. McCain was out of cash and out of friends and is flat out despised by the hard right. By what remarkable means, then, has he arrived at the brink of his party's nomination? Well, people kind of like him. He's smart, usually reasonable, often funny, sometimes goofy. So voters, you know, vote for him. For this you need Tim Russert...