Word: charming
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...handsome and trim, a former jock who's still in shape. He wears jeans and has an almost actorly sense of self-possession about him. He talks in measured phrases. He doesn't fidget. If you feel like a Diet Coke, he'll fetch it himself. His charm is Clintonian; in fact, the two are distant cousins...
...rent fan machines that disperse the scents into the air. Smaller retailers can buy simple smells--sage and pomegranate, rosemary eucalyptus, white ginger--off the rack for $100 a month, including fan rental. And ScentAir is expanding its repertoire by cooking up smells that are meant not to charm but to repel: last month it re-created the smell of burning electrical wire for a military simulation; earlier, it had dreamed up dinosaur dung for a children's museum...
...bullet hot...We were hoping for more of a vote for the ‘sophisticated women.’ A ‘then she unbuttoned her tweedy regalia’ kind of thing.” What some nominees lacked in looks though, they compensated for in charm. “There was a guy nominated from Cornell who teaches a class in gender theory or something that allows him to show porn in class. And apparently he comes in one day of the year wearing a dominatrix suit, and ‘S&M’ kind...
...Royal has succeeded by presenting herself as the image of honorable French womanhood and employing the politics of charm [Sept. 18]. She is adept at handling policy issues pragmatically rather than ideologically. Since her partner, Socialist Party secretary François Hollande, has also been touted as a potential presidential candidate, there is an across-the-water parallel. Like Hillary and Bill Clinton in the U.S., this may be another welcome case of getting two for the price of one. Martin L. Grey High Wycombe, England Your cover story on Royal, the most likely presidential candidate of the French Socialist...
...plenty of access to Bush and Cheney for his first two tomes. Not this time. "We had a sense that this was going to be a different kind of book," says one source familiar with the discussions on how to handle Woodward. "The third time is not the charm...