Word: charms
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...Shubert brothers took on You Never Know, they felt compelled to add a heavy coating of glitz. The result was a near-total disaster. By contrast, the Huntington troupe has remained faithful to Porter's original conception of the play, mounting a production that captures all of Porter's charm and many of his faults--among them, a rather sportsmanlike view of romance...
Everywhere he glanced he saw defeat, "even in the eyes of the ushers," and found no charm in it. Green wanted lights and still does. He did not want Ernie Banks, the Cubs' living monument. They had been paying Ernie to be Ernie. (Who better for the job?) Seeing other uses for the money, Green asked waivers on tradition and began redoing his roster in ex-Dodgers and ex-White Sox and ex-Red Sox and ex-Phillies most of all. Notably Second Baseman Ryne Sandberg, Leftfielder Gary Matthews, Rightfielder...
Nothing against Kansas City or San Diego, but a Detroit-Chicago World Series would have a particular charm. Nostalgia has won the day, and Ernie Banks has been called back into an honorary uniform. When those less-than-great wartime teams met in 1945, Paul ("Dizzy") Trout was a righthanded pitcher for the Tigers. Now Dizzy's son Steve ("Rainbow") Trout is a lefthanded pitcher for the Cubs. In both the baseball and trout worlds, this is a year of complete reversals. -ByTomCallahan
...debates may be the Democrats' last best hope to gain substantial political ground. The power of the President's charm will be diminished, Democrats hope, when he speaks at length on matters of substance. Moreover, Mondale adherents dream of Reagan blundering during the debates, making some significant misstatement of fact. The White House preferred to hold no debates at all, but Reagan's political advisers feared that an outright refusal would make their man look evasive...
Held in contempt of court, Robinson was arrested, then released and given a hero's welcome at his office. The sheriff trades heavily on his good ole boy charm, stumping hard in rural areas and bellowing, "The Republicans can call me a cowboy, or they can call me Sue, but they are fixin' to get a tiger in their tails like they've never had before...