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...like you, understands the complications of everyday living yet is equipped with the mental tools to solve these problems? Chen communicates that sort of pragmatic intelligence. He's a Taiwanese Al Gore, and that's part of his problem. He could do with a bit of Clintonian warmth and charm. He struggles to connect, which is surprising considering that he has a cuddly-cute sort of marketability?the doe-eyed A-Bian doll, by all accounts, helped him charm younger voters in last year's election...
...self-explanatory, "I Hate Dali," to tales like "Peculiar Celebrity," about the wife of a high-school teacher. The strongest of these involves a nine-year-old girl who discovers a device in her great-aunt's basement. The story the aunt tells of the contraption has such charm and imagination I daren't reveal it except to give you the title: "Personality Records." (Note the clever sideways reference to the "RPM" of the book's title...
...hour--and she called the baby Aisha. Aisha was a lively child with huge brown eyes and a flashing smile. She ate whatever Marie prepared, whether it was a stew of pounded cassava leaves or a soup of ground peanuts; but like all children, she loved sweets, and would charm her mother into buying her cakes at the market. She slept in the same bed with her mother, always staying close. And when her little sister came along, she nicknamed her Bobo...
...half hour alone, the film sends up pro-wrestling and The Matrix). While watching Shrek, you can almost hear the Dreamworks writers wheeze with pain, as they try to hack-up yet another demographic-friendly allusion that is both witty and self-aware. Sure, the movie lacks class and charm-but today's kids don't want class and charm. They want attitude. And Shrek's got more attitude than a 24-hour marathon of Jeannine Garafolo standup (let us now take one second to pray that this never happens...
...Summers. Amy C. Offner ’01 reportedly told her minions that Summers is “very ugly and remarkably inarticulate.” But don’t count on Summers to feel injured by Offner’s fighting words. He may lack aesthetic charm or conversational cunning, but he sure as hell won’t let his office be occupied...