Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risking either a split in its ranks or a revolt by the suspicious hard-line left that gave him its support. The new leader likes to say, "I can work with anyone in the Labor Party who wants to win." If he succeeds in that, Kinnock has the easy charm, the pleasing personality, the political savvy and the determination to pose a threat to the Conservatives...
...star, more an all-around journeyman, like his father. Victor Ueberroth (the German name means "above the red," not to mention in the black), an unschooled but well-read drummer, sold aluminum siding to farmers for their wood barns. "You don't convince farmers with charm or fast talk," says the son, the second of three Ueberroth children. "My father had a great interest in people." And in events too. "We would debate world issues at dinner. Or he would toss riddles out on the table. It was mental gymnastics." Not only at Ueberroth's own table...
Every four years since then, the world has come together to be pulled further apart in the only event that seems to matter: the international tug o' war. Munich in 1972 was a reprise of the Holocaust. Two dozen African nations, one full ring off the Olympic charm bracelet of continents, disengaged from Montreal in 1976 rather than associate with New Zealand, whose rugby team had scrummed in apartheid-infested South Africa. The U.S. and 35 sympathizers boycotted the 1980 Games in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With Americans currently enraged at the U.S.S.R. for shooting down...
...interna tional conspiracy that will preoccupy him for the rest of this loose-jointed remake of Thunderball. Once again, the scenario has something to do with the theft of nuclear warheads and their use as a blackmail weapon. The plot's mastermind is played with silky, neurotic charm by Klaus Maria Brandauer (so fine in Mephisto), while as his chief agent provocateur, Barbara Carrera deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond's career. And it is good to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role again. It makes Bond's cynicism...
Kerr added that he expected Rajah's soon to be conceived off spring to inherit its father's same charm. Hill said that since the bee pollen has been so successful, the group will visit the National Zoo in Washington. D.C. next week and offer the brown tablets to the frigid pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing