Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This additional expense resulted in only marginally better taste. To be sure, the special effects are more persuasive than those of the other two films. Steve McQueen and Paul Newman bring authoritative dash to their work as, respectively, the fire captain and the architect who combine their charisma to minimize loss of life when the world's tallest building goes up in flames. Faye Dunaway provides the film's highest moments of suspense by nearly falling out of the damnedest dress you ever saw on several occasions. But looked at from an accountant's point of view...
...patriarch was dressed like all the others in the hall, but there was no question about who was King. Some world leaders may have charisma, but Faisal emanates a dignity that stamps him as special. He looks older than 68. His face is deeply wrinkled, his eyelids droop. But, said a young protocol officer wearily, "we young men cannot keep up with him." The King stood to receive me in my turn, shook hands, spoke a few words of welcome and motioned me to a seat. He never smiled, though, or changed his facial expression. His answers to my questions...
Unfashionable as it has become, the word charisma may have to be revived to describe Arkansas' new Senator Dale Bumpers, 49. He is so charismatic, in fact, that a lot of people, to their sorrow, have had trouble taking him seriously. "Dandy Dale" they have called him, "the man with one speech, a shoeshine and a smile." But the smile has turned out to be deadly for his opponents, who never quite knew what hit them, so disarming was the weapon. Today, Bumpers is considered the most promising politician in the South-a region that, as it moderates...
...close-knit circle of advisers or a kitchen cabinet. At staff meetings he solicits opinions from everyone, picking and choosing from the advice given him. Compared with Egypt's expansive President Sadat or even with the zealous George Habash, Arafat has little in the way of charisma, but he can inspire devotion nonetheless. In part, that may be because he seems to care genuinely about his fellow Palestinians-in-exile. He will take time to get involved in such homely matters as helping to arrange a fedayeen marriage or seeing that a commando's child is enrolled in the right...
Fight promoters would undoubtedly agree. Despite the five-week postponement of the fight, Gentleman Ali's charisma attracted enough closed-circuit TV viewers to recoup the $12 million invested in the bout-good news for Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko. who personally plowed $11.4 million into the match. Attendance at U.S. theaters, however, was far lower than hoped for, and the gross take will fall far short of the $40 million goal. The fighters' purses-$5 million each-were guaranteed in advance...