Word: charmless
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...working holidays go, Thanksgiving 2000 was not the worst that James Baker has spent on assignment for someone named Bush. That distinction belongs to Thanksgiving 1990, when George W.'s father dispatched his Secretary of State to Sanaa, the charmless capital city of Yemen, to ensure Yemeni acquiescence in the military action being planned against Iraq. For hours, Baker had to sit across from President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was then despised by most of America's Middle East allies, watch him eat a messy local delicacy with his hands, and try to keep his own meal down while...
This is silly. Every schoolboy knows the only worthwhile reason to become invisible is so you can case the girls' locker room undetected. Caine (an utterly charmless Kevin Bacon) does use his power voyeuristically in Hollow Man. But this being an up-to-date--that is to say, thoroughly ugly--movie, he doesn't stop there. He becomes a rapist. And then, of course, a murderer...
PLEASE ALLOW MY DAUGHTER TO BUY CHRISTINA AGUILERA'S HIT SINGLE "GENIE IN A BOTTLE." AFTER CLOSE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS, I'VE CONCLUDED THAT THE LYRIC "RUB ME THE RIGHT WAY" IS NOT CHARMLESS INNUENDO, BUT RATHER THAT IT DESCRIBES THE MOST COMMON METHOD FOR RELEASING GENIES FROM BOTTLES...