Word: aura
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SHOW PEOPLE SLOUGH OFF THEIR OLD agents all the time. If your career is suddenly on the ascent, you need to sign with a big-time handler who can fully exploit your new aura. And if your career is foundering -- needless to say, through absolutely no fault of your own -- you've got to find the suitably aggressive new handler who can persuade executives that your aura is undimmed. , It's just the way the industry works...
...LEADING BRITISH POETS appeared together on a platform at Hull University. One was Ted Hughes, the widower of Sylvia Plath: intense, leather- jacketed, trailing a romantic aura. The other was Philip Larkin, an overweight, bald, bespectacled and partly deaf figure in a dark suit who later described himself as providing the "sophisticated, insincere, effete, and gold-watch-chained alternative...
Allegations made public last week raised new questions: What humanity may Michael Jackson have lost? What innocence might he have stolen from children dazzled by his aura? In a vitriolic custody battle between a Los Angeles woman and her ex-husband, who is a prominent dentist and (it goes without saying) screenwriter, the pair's 13-year-old child had accused Jackson of fellating him, and the Los Angeles Police Department was investigating the charge. The star, who has poignantly described himself as a victim of child abuse, was in danger of being exposed as a perpetrator...
...detective. It was Les Miserables in prime time, and that overtone is lost in this adaptation, which compresses the pursuit and confines it mostly to Chicago. But the tension and realism that result from permitting Kimble less running room amply compensate for the diminishment of the original's romantic aura...
More than any of his outrageous colleagues do, he grants an aura of believability to a bit of braggadocio that appeared in the War Ax, a "skinzine" published by the Georgia group SS of America...