Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then the criminals must be lured all the way to Australia so that Mick can prove what we already know: that their street smarts are no match for his outback smarts. Then, then, then. It's a little like listening to a child improvise a tall tale; the innocent charm quickly wears thin...
...Jesse Helms who rises to greet a visitor, full of cracker-barrel charm and as well mannered as an overly polite schoolboy, really be the notorious "Senator No," scourge of the Senate? Poor, misunderstood Jesse Helms. A bulky 6 ft. 2 in., he has a jowly, owlish face; his sparse white hair is slicked back, and his eyebrows, frozen like question marks above his eyes, seem to ask, "Who me, cause a fuss?" A sometime Sunday-school teacher, he is fond of saying, "Well, bless your heart," his voice a velvet bass carried by a Carolina drawl...
...British intelligence at the time, Philby's youthful political excesses were overlooked, and by 1940, at 28, he was established as an agent. Colleagues disregarded his drinking and womanizing (he married four times and had several mistresses, including Maclean's wife Melinda), and often spoke of his intelligence and charm. But as Philby explained when he first emerged from silence in 1967, he felt no love for his native land. "To betray you must first belong," he said. "I never belonged...
Both Reagans have always been superstitious, observing such harmless rituals as knocking on wood and walking around, never under, ladders. The President puts a certain coin and a gold lucky charm in his pocket each morning, and routinely tosses salt over his left shoulder not just when he spills some but before all his meals. Ronald Reagan freely admits his superstition, but in a manner that allays concern. In his 1965 autobiography, Where's the Rest of Me?, he breezily describes his and Nancy's attention to syndicated horoscopes. And Nancy Reagan is far from the first First Lady...
...trademark teen defiance, her entrance halfway through the first act evokes immediate gasps of recognition. From there, opinion sharply divides. New York Times Critic Frank Rich hailed her for "intelligent, scrupulously disciplined comic acting." Clive Barnes of the New York Post said, "There is a genuine, reticent charm here, but it is not ready to light the lamps on Broadway." But most first-nighters implied she had been hired for celebrity rather than talent. The New York Daily News headlined its lead review NO, SHE CAN'T ACT. Dennis Cunningham of WCBS-TV not only lambasted Madonna...