Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...becoming the greatest American pianist of the century when time ran out on William Kapell. Before he died in a 1953 plane crash at 31, he had everything: looks, charisma, unrivaled musicality, technique to burn. Now his complete recordings--concertos by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, solos by Chopin, Debussy and Liszt, duet performances with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose--have been reissued as a nine-disk boxed set, allowing a new generation to be dazzled by his recreative genius. Best of all is a live broadcast of the Copland piano sonata that seethes with passion and force. Hear...
Francine's hopes for Calypso II depend largely on the man she and her husband chose to lead future expeditions: New Zealand yachtsman Peter Blake, 50, winner of the 1995 America's Cup. The 6-ft. 2-in. Blake shares Cousteau's charisma and love of the sea. What he doesn't yet know about oceanography and filmmaking, he hopes to pick up from experts on the Cousteau team. "I'll learn the science by osmosis," he says...
...kind of charisma," Bates said,"not the kind of charisma that fills the room, buta quiet charisma...
...whether Bill Clinton had learned his lesson or put things right with God, but what his excuse was for his gross stupidity. Embattled on the legal and political fronts, the White House hasn't addressed this issue yet, which may be a mistake. If part of Clinton's charisma and appeal has stemmed from his James Bondish savoir faire--the impression he leaves of a double life well executed--what some people might find hardest to forgive aren't his falsehoods and inappropriate gropings, but his lollapalooza lapses of animal cunning...
Immensely intelligent, full of charisma and riding a crest of economic prosperity, Bill Clinton has had a golden opportunity to fix this nation. And now it is gone...