Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willed labor and manpower expert and adviser to Presidents, who from 1950 to 1953 was an Assistant Secretary of Defense, the highest Pentagon post ever held by a woman; of pneumonia; in New York City. Born in Budapest, reared in New York City, she blended toughness with soft-voiced charm and a dash of flamboyance in her many public posts. Hoffman dramatized her role as a mediator during a 1930s New York City electricians' strike by donning hip boots and descending into a subway tunnel. Awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1945, the first female recipient, she devoted...
...scholar of sorts, Barton found the letters too pat to be credible. But when he met Minor in Los Angeles, his doubts were undermined by her charm. Lonely after the death of his wife, Barton, while on his train journey home, wrote a warm letter inviting her to visit him in Foxboro, Mass., and to "come and sleep under my pines and see my Lincoln material and swim in my little lake." He added: "Tell your mother I made love to you and hope to do it again...
...charm of being air bone may not be clear to those who scan the sky only for unidentified flying objects. Why fly? Por Russell, "it's an obsession--more addicting than any drag I know...
...Alison Taylor, and Ruth Mieszkuc) fail to achieve any immediacy at all. But such flaws of execution remain secondary in a show which so clearly should never have been attempted. The Sendak mystique for children is in many ways analogous to the grown-up vogue of Edward Gorey--the charm lies in the ascendancy of nonsense over logic, in the ingenuous whimsy at work, and most of all in the dominant, idiosyncratic drawings...
...that zero, no matter how many times, multiplied, can never equal anything but zero. A typical verse from any of Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow it up to the size of the Loeb mainstage, add reddish lights and a crescent moon, choreograph it for 30 people in black lectards, and what have you got? Nothing, Nothing...