Word: aura
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...city of Boston has a prominent role in the films. Duffy credits his roots with suffusing the film with a Bostonian aura that has attracted its fair share of New England fans. “This is where I’m from,” he said. “I’m a New Englander. I was trying to bring a Bostonian mentality...
...accustomed to the occasional meltdown by their appointed deity, Diego Maradona. Maradona's legendary feats as a player - arguably the world's best, in his day - earned him the "god" appellation years ago, but his performance as coach of Argentina's brilliant but struggling national team has shattered his aura...
With less than two weeks until election day, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine could really use some of what President Barack Obama has - not just the charisma, but also the credibility, the aura of a leader who can shake up politics as usual. If one thing is clear in New Jersey, it's that voters are fed up with the status...
...more like Louis Vuitton's or Herms'. But from 2004 to early 2008, the company opened 94 new stores and dozens of outlet shops. By the end of 2007, same-store sales were dipping for the first time in years. Says the author: "Convenience acts like antimatter to aura and identity." Likewise, Motorola took its sleek, fashionable $400 Razr cell phone and flooded the market with it at a lower price. "It destroyed the Razr brand," says the author. "Consumers who once considered the Razr the high-fidelity phone now saw it as the cheap phone you get when...
...Report on Harvard House Renewal, released by the College administration in April 2009, stressed the need to upgrade the Houses for 21st-century living, while still maintaining their unique “Harvard aura...