Word: roguish
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...roguish and sophisticated sex comedy with a few brain teasers tipped...
...presidency of Peru in 1990 as a fiscal conservative. Happily, Vargas Llosa the winning novelist remains a staunch romantic libertarian. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 260 pages; $23) is, like his delectable Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977; translated into English in 1982), a roguish and sophisticated sex comedy with a few brain teasers tipped...
...criminal lawyer in the 1940s, Stein once recalled, got his cases because he was best friends with the chief of police. And when he made a closing argument, he screamed at the jury so loudly that he could be heard in Judiciary Square. "The bar used to have a roguish element about it, which in a sense was wholesome," Stein told the Washingtonian. "Lawyers didn't take themselves seriously...
...John has a need for people, and you can feel it," says director Mike Nichols. But that's not all the actor and the President have in common. Both have answered prying questions about their private lives and sexual habits. And both know how to assuage their critics with roguish charm, cracking a humble aw-shucks smile or touching a stranger's arm to spark a personal connection...
...finally been identified. Famous for his steeliness, Ickes opened the 8:30 a.m. White House staff meeting with the grim news, then issued a call for business as usual. But within minutes he had turned the meeting into an impromptu wake, with staff members swapping fond anecdotes and roguish tales, all of them rich in laughter and full of deep pride in Brown. Even Ickes told...