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...easy to write a character who has the power to charm. They're like witty people -- the author had better be able to suggest an elusive quality without making heavy weather of the whole matter. Stephen McCauley has that skill. The hero of The Easy Way Out is a fellow of no obvious consequence, but the reader gladly follows him through a dizzy emotional crisis...
...larger, deeper. It signifies a geologic change in American politics: the growing obsolescence of the great institutions -- the political parties, the Establishment media, the Congress -- that have traditionally stood between the governors and the governed. The traditional way to achieve and wield power in America is to tame or charm or capture these institutions. Perot's genius was to realize that for the first time in history, technology makes it possible to bypass them. Win or lose, knowing or not, Perot is the harbinger of a new era of direct democracy...
...swipe at Stevenson, who was divorced, Ike's spots targeted the women's vote by portraying the President as a "traditional family man." Mamie was used repeatedly; her "smile and modesty and easy natural charm make her the ideal First Lady," said the G.O.P. spots. Bush may be more subtle, but Barbara will undoubtedly surface as the Republicans seek to remind voters of Clinton's once troubled marriage...
Mental illness can wear many masks. Most are subtler than the deranged face of schizophrenia, but they can be just as paralyzing. Take the case of Dick Cavett. To many TV viewers, the talk-show host and actor seemed to have it all -- wit, charm, fame and fortune. But behind the glib facade, Cavett was falling apart. About 12 years ago, a chronic depression that had haunted him for years rose up and began undermining what he believed was his most valuable asset: his intellect. He became convinced that his brain was "broken" and that life without it was hardly...
Boomerang also establishes Eddie as the charming center, almost the host, of a cast of genial zanies. They get most of the laughs. The criminally adorable Halle Berry provides the movie's heart. And Murphy is the stage manager, smiling his approval. In one pretty scene a lively child named Khandra Mkhize gives a little speech, with wide eyes and beautifully broad gestures, and Eddie mimics her, gesture for gesture, charm for charm. This is what he has always been: not just the performer but the audience too. He's us, with a little comic genius on the side...