Word: charisma
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...votes," Bush quipped, taking a preemptive poke at Gore. Cheney got the nod, Bush said, because the longtime pol would make an able backup and "a valuable partner" in a Bush administration. Message: This guy will be a heavy hitter, not a potted plant. It's about competence, not charisma. Even his wife, Lynn Cheney, was welcomed as an education reformer...
...tools he was selling to a man who was eyeing them but clearly didn't have the dough. Texas Rangers fans recall the effortless charm of the team owner who sat in the regular seats, and even John McCain, Bush's nemesis in the primaries, marvels at the seductive charisma he encountered in their first postprimary meeting. Jim Ferguson, one of Bush's admen, is convinced: "If people get a glimpse of what they would see if they actually met him, they will elect him." To Mark McKinnon, Bush's top media adviser, the Bush personality is magic, "like lightning...
...What's an island whip like Richard to do? Keep scheming, and hope for the best. The three wild cards must seem like easy targets - although as head string-puller you'd think he'd do viewers a favor and pick off charisma dead weights Susan, Sean and Kelly, in that order. We shall see. In the meantime, host Jeff Probst finally earns his journalistic stripes by asking Richard the big question: How does a schemer survive the final vote, in which the last seven kicked off choose between the final...
...leader of the prosecution in the 1945 trial of Nazi officers at Nuremberg. "It's meant to be a trial." But in this mini-series, written by David W. Rintels and directed by Yves Simoneau, instruction and entertainment make a pretty good match. Baldwin nicely tamps down his natural charisma to get at a good man's frustration in abiding by the stern moral rules that he set for the tribunal. In melodrama, of course, the villains always win; they're the ones who get to strut. Thus Brian Cox, as Goering, has his drollest mass-murderer role since...
...film, like the best cinema verit, makes the audience conscious of the filmmaking process itself through the conspicuous invisibility of standard filmmaking conventions: the camera just happens to be there, but everything that takes place wouldn't happen without its presence. It is a meditation on the nature of charisma, the nature of the camera, and the link between...