Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aren't We All?, was a sellout in London last year; it opens on Broadway at the end of the month, and Harrison has been practicing with an almost entirely new cast. The only one remaining from the London production, indeed, is his co-star and partner in charm, Claudette Colbert...
...tape and film and photographic paper, pictures of Viet Nam by the hundred gross. Bit by visual bit, Americans accrued a vivid (if distorted) portrait of the country where their sons and husbands were dying, a terrifying multimedia montage of nervous teenage heroes behind sandbags, of Saigon's beleaguered charm, of a green, green countryside with helicopters hovering everywhere...
...William," he would say, "you're a bright a enough little kid. "You've got lots of charm and poise, and you're well regarded as a leader around here. You hold your liquor fairly well and haven't wet your pants during school hours all week. So what's this crappola about the baseball statistics...
...stammering voice from the heart. A child of the Midwest during the '40s and early '50s, Schickel belongs to the last generation that automatically placed "silver" before "screen" and "glamorous" before "star." The world of celebrities, he confides, became "The Great Other Place"--a promised land of grace and charm and wit where nobody was ordinary, nobody was dull...
...becoming boss, then went on to oversee the building of the first Trident submarine. Veliotis claims that David Lewis, General Dynamics' chairman and chief executive officer, promised to step aside and give him the top spot as a reward for a good performance, but reneged. "That man could charm a snake," says Veliotis, "and he certainly charmed me. He had no intention of stepping down." Instead, in November 1981 Veliotis was elected to the board of directors and made an executive vice president. He resigned six months later in the midst of an investigation into kickbacks that he allegedly took...