Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DiMaggio. Sportswriters for New York City's nearly a dozen daily papers fell in love with the shy 21-year-old who came up with the Yankees from spring training in 1936. Babe Ruth wasn't around anymore to provide reliably flashy copy, and without him the team lacked charisma. This handsome new kid, the son of a Sicilian immigrant fisherman, looked promising. His awkwardness and reticence with reporters might be portrayed as enigmatic, as might his absolutely deadpan demeanor on the field. And advance word from DiMaggio's minor league exploits with the San Francisco Seals was that...
...witnesses, concealing of evidence and a subversion of the judicial system. If all this didn't amount at least to a high misdemeanor, what ever will? Now all the mendacious charmers out there will be looking for their chance. We have not seen the last of scoundrels with dazzling charisma. DUD GANN Cape Elizabeth, Maine...
...trade show were snapping up her fall line--though a few were disappointed there were no matching winter-weather thongs. "The very thing that captivated Seinfeld is captivating everyone else," says Kate White, Cosmo's editor in chief. "He fell for her because of her beauty and charisma, and so have we." Now the question is whether it's a spring fling--or a love built to last...
Appearance: "We all know what charisma is...Al Gore doesn't have...
...short of independence, and in its eyes the agreement falls short, especially since it doesn't include a Kosovar referendum on independence after the three years are up. During the French talks, the absence of a referendum almost destroyed the chance for a compromise--until Surroi, by force of charisma and will, turned the tide...