Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...receptions for foreign statesmen that followed the funerals of Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov. On those occasions, he reports, Gromyko lingered longer with East bloc allies and exchanged only perfunctory greetings with Western leaders. "The exception," Amfitheatrof notes, "was Britain's Margaret Thatcher, who seemed able to charm the grim-faced Foreign Minister...
Senator Dale Bumpers, 58, of Arkansas has lots of natural pizazz and down-home charm. A Marine sergeant in World War II, he practiced law and ran a hardware store in Charleston, Ark. (pop. 1,748), before he decided to try for political office. In 1970 he won the governorship. After a second term, he was elected to the Senate. "Dale is a cross between John F. Kennedy and a Methodist minister," ventures Little Rock Attorney Robert Brown, a former Bumpers aide. "He really turns on a crowd...
Behind that bland language was a tacit assumption of the summit: nothing should occur to inconvenience a leader seeking reelection. That axiom certainly guided Reagan's image makers during his entire European visit. Wherever he went, Reagan treated audiences to large doses of his fabled charm. He met his first challenge at University College in Galway, Ireland, a self-designated nuclear-free zone. While the President stood garbed in a scarlet-and-purple academic gown, preparing to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, some 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters staged a demonstration about half a mile...
...Gorky. Fired last year as director of My One and Only, which brought Gershwin back to Broadway, Sellars apparently wanted to show how he would have directed Gershwin had he been allowed to. In fact, using only two pianos, he and Musical Director Craig Smith stage the songs with charm and style. It is a pleasure to hear little-known works like the title song along with old favorites like Fascinating Rhythm, which is affectingly sung by Marianne Tatum and a group of children. But with very few exceptions, George and Ira seem as uncomfortable in Gorky's play...
Repulsive as Larry Lazar often is, he maneuvers so clumsily that he has a certain bearlike charm. Moreover, his victims are in their ways equally ravenous for sex, money and fame, and as eager to use Lazar as he is to use them. Mira, an old girlfriend, resumes a romance only to take back a now valuable piece from her early career as a sculptor. Michael, a lesbian, seduces Lazar in order to get him to read her screenplay. Sidney Stein, a novelist, invites Lazar to his home for dinner merely to lure him out into the woods and beat...