Amid frontman Steve Albini's descriptions of his songs' charming subject matter – including the Colombian necktie, "a particularly humiliating way to die that involves having your throat slit from ear-to-ear so your tongue can flop out your neck" – there lurks a piece of wisdom.
After authorising a biography, the most charming of subjects can turn cold at the last moment and withdraw co-operation; stubborn families can sit on archives; survivors who have granted interviews or lent letters can claim that that is not what they meant when they see their own words in cold type, and refuse to be quoted.
More poignant is the story of Jose Barco, a well-liked and highly respected young soldier and charming interview subject.
Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
It seems fitting, then, that it has been paired with "V.O.," a charming short whose subject is arguing about movies.
Private Eye nicknamed Stevens Piranha Teeth because of his grin, and it was said that he could be charming, but those subjected to his rages, or whose employment was roughly dispensed with, doubtless did not find him so.
She hovers in the biography like a shadow subject, charming to outsiders with her theatrical hustle and zany style sense (she liked to wear a dance leotard under a fur coat), less so to Wendy, her youngest daughter, whom she inflated with ambition and undermined with criticism.
Reviewer Takurō Yamaguchi gave the film an 85% rating, and found the treatment of its subject charming.
As a travelogue and an exercise in improving foreign relations, the show is charming and, despite its subject matter, harmless.
shows she can be charming, even when the subject matter is fucking desperate.
