Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly as an imitation Groucho; Lonny Price giggles and cavorts as a talking Harpo; Andrew Bloch is less derivative, but he is not distinctively anything else either. These performances have charm, but they bring to mind the inimitable pleasures of the originals...
...parody of democracy, the scene had a certain dramatic charm. Until they were ordered into silence, hundreds of colorfully dressed spectators in the galleries of the Philippine National Assembly cheered and booed passionately as politicians on the turquoise-carpeted floor below walked through their parts. One at a time, brown envelopes containing vote totals from each of the country's 147 voting centers were presented to the legislators for inspection. Tallies were read aloud, and results posted on green tote boards that were lined up before the 200 mahogany desks of the Assembly. Charges flew that some envelopes were improperly...
...have to ask, you are probably still wondering if Jack finally found a way to redeem himself in The Best of Times. But her team is full of genuinely funny fellows, Hawn herself is full of spunky charm, and Director Ritchie has a light and wayward comic touch, so even a hopeless male chauvinist can have a good, instructive time at Wildcats. If there are such things as necessary fairy tales, these movies cheerfully provide them...
...girls use their charm trying to weasel one out of you," undergraduate worker Daniel J. Sheehan '87 says. "It works...
...seen one of Swaggart's sweating, mike-toting, Bible-waving, Devil-thrashing performances. "Muhammad is dead but Jesus is alive," he intones. "He's alive. He's alive! GLORY!" He loves the sawdust trail and conducts a road-show crusade about once a month. "It has its own charm, spontaneity and electrifying power," he says. "There's really nothing in the world quite like it. It's like the Republican or the Democratic Convention every night...