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Word: charms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another. "It takes a lot of nerve to have nothing at your age," Rodgers tells Clark with utter sincerity. Beatty sometimes seems miscast as a shy nerd who is a loser with women and is prone to collapsing in tears, but he saves his character with a goofy charm...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Ishtar | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...exciting two minutes in sports" ran over this year by more than three seconds. But Alysheba and Bet Twice bumped and bobbled enough in the homestretch to make last week's garden-variety Kentucky Derby richly exciting. And every party to Alysheba's three-quarter-length victory had estimable charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Days Of Wine and Bloody Noses | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...Nicolson credulity a blessing: Adam describes a movie executive as "one dissertation short of a PhD at Harvard . . . Sometimes -- that was the crucial word -- he didn't think the hassle was worth the money." Generally, however, the men breeze through their missions with the jaunty patrician charm of the charmed. The cross fire of their letters -- a burst from Nigel, a counterburst from Adam -- is the British equivalent of the nautical exchanges between William F. Buckley Jr. and his son Christopher. And despite his occasional flaws, Adam remains a visitor to watch. In Texas he describes a horse proceeding with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bifocal Two Roads to Dodge City | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...this picture exists only as a mobile Michael J. Fox poster, suitable for display on the bedroom walls of twelve-year-olds named Cindy. Secret earned nearly $7.8 million its first weekend, so the Fox conglomerate is thriving anyway. Now if Fox could only make movies worthy of his charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coping with the Cute Factor | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...unlike the male protagonists in other successful teen movies who combine youthful awkwardness with quick wit and charm, Brantley is too perfect. If he had been born in midtown Manhattan he wouldn't be more at home in The City--and we're supposed to believe he's never lived off the farm. Brantley should have been played as an innocent idealist thrown into the wild den of Wall Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Secret of My Success | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

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