Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unexpected geologic inversion produced a bizarre result: Crocodile Dundee (Beacon Hill). Beyond this, Dewitt couldn't figure out what had gone wrong. Paul Hogan always seemed pretty funny on the Foster's commercials, and Dewitt always found a certain charm in the Land Down Under--so why is Crocodile Dundee such a bad movie? The answer can be stated in very simple terms: because it's stupid...
Shift the scene to Reykjavik. That too was a summit unlike all others. Reagan even denied that it was a summit. It was just an informal meeting of the minds, where he could exercise his charm; and it too seemed verging toward a love-in. The President was accompanied by experts with varying attitudes on arms control, men who deferred superficially to Reagan's vision of a Strategic Defense Initiative entirely benevolent, so purely defensive in nature that its secrets could be shared with the world once it was put in place. Members of his Administration nodded along, as they...
...laibon used a Dik-dik, that small lovely antelope, to thwart someone's plans. It works thus: he places charms upon the animal and then releases it in the direction of the person who is the target of the spell. For help with childbirth, he drapes the skin of an eland on the woman -- the eland being much like the cow, which possesses magic powers. In order to bring rain, the laibon places a dead frog on the ground, belly up, with a charm upon it. Within 24 hours, before the frog decays, the rain will fall...
...wind -- an important advantage given that four of the eight legs of the 24.1-mile triangular course are sailed in that direction. Just to be extra sure, there is also one no-tech installation in the bow: a bag of garlic, an old Portuguese sailor's good-luck charm...
...Crimson press said, ineffable charm, five minutes on the telephone, and an ungodly amount of good fortune landed me and my best girl two complimentary passes to EPCOT, and consequently, Captain EO, that aforementioned multi-media minotaur with the legs of Thriller and the horns of Daddy Zoetrope...