Word: charmingly
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Cole found that Fargoans do their homework. "Before meeting me," she says, "one businessman insisted on doing a computer data-base search of all the articles I ever wrote." But to Cole, once a "jaded, guarded New Yorker," Midwestern charm has proved contagious; she felt at ease with her subjects. In turn, they readily offered clues of the coming budget cuts to TIME's Fargo north decoder...
...star-even in her worst, or least, films. For example, French Kiss (co-produced by Ryan), which achieves a level of agreeable inanity only after a grating first hour or so. As a jilted fianca who hooks up with a Gallic jewel thief (Kevin Kline), Ryan cedes all the charm to Kline while remaining the center of attraction. Even in this wan caper, though, she is bold in her playing of an insecure woman who is so intense she seems dense. Her clear blue eyes widen in a perpetual double take at a world that loves to play practical jokes...
...them in Tupperware containers with soda water and ice and freeze them for the next day. If, now endowed with a leathery skin and the consistency of a Nerfball, they survived a second day unpurchased, they went back into the freezer, because, after all, the third day's the charm. What the condition of the dear frankfurters was after three days, modesty prevents me from relating...
...world of puppetry allows for a suspension of disbelief that is rarely attained on the Harvard stage. It demands a space of pure fantasy. The seance would have been totally ineffective if it was done live. Throughout the Rockumentary the puppets have an endearing charm that few actors could approach...
Sometimes, it seems, the most nuanced sports are the ones with the most charm. (Or, in the case of baseball, at least used...