Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's other asset has in its indirect revelations concerning the congregants and them relationship with the preacher Marjoe's charisma is beyond question. The intense emotional and physical reactions of his audiences bear witness to the hole he has cracked through their fortified walls of intense self-repression. He is an unquestionably good actor and a competent singer and organist. His comparing himself to Mick Jagger is not at all baseless. Amidst an aura of religious righteousness rather than an atmosphere of Satanic evil, Marjoe, like Jagger, conducts an exercise in group masturbation legitimized by the central figure...
...presidential balloting Wednesday night had an air of anticlimax. Not all of the Old Politics was gone: as the states were called to declare their votes, delegation chairmen delivered their traditional commercials. Delaware was "the home of corporations, chickens, chemicals and charisma"; California was "the state that began the lettuce boycott"; North Carolina was "the summerland where the sun doth shine...
Eventually he trounces Jarmon on the strength of his charisma alone. The last scene of the movie shows him looking conscience-stricken as he rummages about for his shattered ideals...
...Charisma. The trip and the big suites are no longer necessary for most of the contenders; the Doral is where the action will be. McGovern sweeps into Miami Beach counting on a first-ballot nomination, capping one of the most extraordinary success sagas in U.S. politics. The first to declare for the nomination, he was dismissed as a one-issue candidate, lacking charisma or recognition, a good Senator about to enact the Peter Principle by reaching for a role beyond him. But he had helped write the rules for the nominating process, and his young cadres knew...
...news executives of New York City's WNBC-TV it was no secret that their 6 o'clock news show was running a Muskie-like third behind the local ABC and CBS shows. What was needed, obviously, was a little readymade charisma. Where better to find it than in a proven vote getter? If TV can sell politicians, why can't politicians sell...