Word: charmingly
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Take all of this, throw it together, and you have...a couple of funny jokes. Some cute lines. A lot of graphic and trashy sexual references. But no charm, no life, no believability, and very little humor...
...alt.drunken.bastards from discussing the finer points of cheap beers, or the readers of the newsgroup alt.philosophy.zen from striving towards greater spirituality. In fact, it is the free-flowing, gossipy nature of these electronic communities, the specific absence of an underlying profit motive, that gives them their strength and charm...
...those who make it to Atlantic City, some have been pageanteers most of their life. Jennifer Curry, Miss Iowa, started when she was nine, was crowned Miss Iowa National Teenager and competed to be America's Miss Charm. Girls get the Miss America bug for all sorts of reasons: self-improvement, blond ambition, because it's there. In the pursuit of distant goals, kids can be wonderfully stubborn: some forge themselves into Olympic figure skaters, others into masters of the 18-ft. jump shot. The pageant hopeful may have this doggedness. She can't get prettier, but she can hone...
...show of Stettheimer's paintings at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, titled "Manhattan Fantastica," is a fairly irresistible event. You would need to be a bear not to enjoy its charm, its faux-naif artifice, its overwhelming campiness and its evocation of a period in the history of the American art world be tween the wars that now, at the sour close of the 20th century, seems remote and glittering, like something enclosed in a bell jar. This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News...
...journeys from Vermont to Washington State to confront her father and clear her mind before the birth of her child. What she finds is a feeble old man, clothed horribly in rags of strength and charm, too confused to admit the truth he has always denied. This is the best of the novel, as Julia realizes that there will be no healing resolution because, as usual, life's story lines are murky...