Word: charisma
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...much the quiet Beatle as the modest Beatle. Where John wanted to be bigger than Elvis, and Paul could scream like Little Richard, Mr. Harrison gravitated toward Carl Perkins, the 50’s rocker whose skills as a songwriter and guitarist were undermined by a distinct lack of charisma...
...separate ways won’t be as easy as they had expected. Wenham and Porter do a great job of establishing an easy, comfortable and convincing chemistry between the two characters. Neither of them has the conventional movie star look, but both make up for that deficiency with charisma and humor...
Perhaps this will clear things up. Much of his charisma stems from the fact that, though his name isn’t in lights, David comes off like a bona fide, A-list star. Everything from his boyish charm and stammering self-effacement to his hawkish concern about which of his quotes are and are not on the record add to the package. As does the number of people who fell comfortably into the role of unofficial press agent when asked to describe their close friend. “I think performing on stage helps me to not perform when...
...scene is a representative one in the political life of a man whose energy, earnestness and sheer charisma drove those who met him to awe. Morris’ new biography, Theodore Rex, covers in dramatic detail the Roosevelt administrations (1901-9) and, more importantly, their leader, whom more than one commentator characterized as the supreme political personality of his time. The previous installment of Morris’ Roosevelt trilogy, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, won a Pulitzer Prize...
Morris’ previous biography was the bestselling pseudo-memoir Dutch, the only authorized biography of Ronald Reagan. The two presidents have much in common and are still very different: both had tremendous charisma and popularity—enough to merit personal biographies as much as political ones. Both presidents, as Morris’ title suggests, secretly wished to rule their country like kings. But Roosevelt has the edge on Reagan as a thinker and scholar, and unlike Reagan (who had such the soul of a performer that Morris himself felt it appropriate to make things up in his biography...