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...main creature, a robot named EVE, also can speak only a few words. Yet it's Pixar's big, bold belief that the mass audience will be astute enough to follow the visual clues and game enough to play along. So confident is the studio in its ability to charm audiences, it has made a futurist movie that's a lot like an old silent picture...
...nation that craves it? Can he win the White House in a year when his party is in widespread ill repute, and is led by the most unpopular incumbent President in the history of polling? And most importantly, can he do it against the youthful, multi-ethnic, charm-infused, walking, talking embodiment of change that is his Democratic opponent...
...beyond his service to the University, it was Knowles’ charm that was remembered above all else. Faust recounted seeing the dean dressed in drag in celebration of the merger of Harvard and Radcliffe: “It was his only time in his tenure as FAS dean, he said, that he had been called under-endowed...
...Best Picture. Such Academy-nominated hits as L.A. Confidential and Eastwood's Mystic River also got snubbed on the Côte d'Azur; and Brokeback Mountain was actually rejected for the festival competition. So, for ambitious American movies, getting canned at Cannes may be more a good-luck charm than the kiss of death...
...restore investor confidence, Icelandic banks and government officials have emphasized their economy's unflagging strengths in a charm offensive directed at ratings agencies and investors. Iceland is the fifth richest country in the oecd; the prices of its largest exports, aluminum and fish, are at record highs. "The Icelanders are richer than us," says British economist Portes. "They're not exactly going to starve." (Iceland's gross national income per capita is $39,400, compared to the U.K.'s $35,300.) What's more, the banks remain fundamentally sound: they have strong deposit ratios and are more profitable than their...