Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reserved for when another special effect lowered from the roof stuck and had to be raised and lowered three times during black-outs. It was not so much the lack of talent of the singers which was upsetting, but the lack of 'razamataz', the lack of style and charisma to put it across. Furthermore, this lack continually emphasized the lack of directionality, emotional or intellectual, inherent in the concept of the show. My final image of this production will be of a blonde Harvard undergraduate in a tuxedo, with a big, clean-shaven smile, trying to sing the blues...
...five performers individually and collectively displayed precisely that mixture of egoism and talent (they all sang superbly) that held the audience's attention completely--and having got that attention, proceeded to milk it with considerable charm--none more so than Maggie-Meg, of course. By this energy and charisma, they helped us pass by the rehashed Coca-Cola advertisement music, a fair number of trite lyrics and a structure which threatened to be as repetitious as Ellington. Part of this danger was averted by the element of directionality introduced--first, there was a temporal narrative: the growing up from adolescence...
WHEN YOU COMING BACK, RED RYDER is a showcase for Marjoe Gortner. It shares much with the movie that introduced him. In the documentary Marjoe Gortner exposed himself as a rip-off travelling evangelist who gloated as he fleeced his followers. His sexual energy and charisma invited comparisons with Mick Jagger. Blue-haired dowagers fainted at his feet...
Carter will need whatever organizational help these men can provide. He has only a fragile hold on his party, which on its left yearns for the charisma of Ted Kennedy and on its right is intrigued by the sudden conservatism of California's Jerry Brown. Polls show Carter beating Jerry Ford (53% to 40%) or Ronald Reagan (55% to 38%) if he wins his own nomination, but he is still less popular than Kennedy in his own party...
...course, each time Teddy gets himself in the public eye, the volume of hate mail and death threats he gets goes way up. And as the last brother in the clan, he's got the responsibility for a lot of families. Charisma, personal power, whatever it is that defines the Kennedys as Kennedys--it's a two-edged sword. People are either won over passionately, see Teddy as the last liberal, the only strong leader left, the covert hope of the Democratic Socialists, or they see Teddy as part of a massive, global conspiracy of Mafiosi, British bankers, Zionists, Communists...