Word: charisma
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Spitzer's gift is a plain-talking sensibility. He was a brilliant student and a star athlete, but he doesn't connect emotionally with people or ooze charisma like a Bill Clinton. He is attractive, though not in a classic way. His strikingly deep-set eyes underscore his drive and intensity. And his pronounced chin once moved the New York Times to comment, "His jaw actually juts." Spitzer has a cheeky sense of humor. (At the Institutional Investor magazine awards dinner for market analysts in November, he opened his speech by saying, "It is wonderful to be here this evening...
...Sick Was J.F.K.?" [NATION, Dec. 2]: I admired President John F. Kennedy as a superior being with shaded nuances in his private life. I thought of him as exuding vigor and charisma. Now, having learned that he suffered so much pain, I think he attained a higher level of humanity--the sad hero of America. CARMELO GARIANO Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...search got around to Britney and Christina, Chicago has finally become a movie--the first one with two stars whose surnames begin with Z, as in pizazz, for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger are perfectly paired as show-biz archetypes. Velma (Zeta-Jones) is the born entertainer, oozing charisma. Roxie (Zellweger) is the rest of us: the type with no gifts but an almost obscene ambition to make...
...credentials aplenty—most recently, she won the Berrilla Kerr playwriting award, was writer-in-residence alongside August Wilson at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and has put on three of her own plays here at Harvard. But Jarcho’s charisma and cheerful iconoclasm go far beyond her résum?...
...candidates say they think they can lobby the administration more effectively than past council leaders because of their “charisma.” But they say their use of alumni and negative publicity would be the key to their effectiveness on the council...