Word: charisma
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Blair's cool charisma, however, does still resonate. He has mastered all the weird demands of modern electioneering, from small talk with nervous students to command of arcane detail under TV cross-examination. Blair likes his job, though it has clearly aged him. Unlike his friend Bill Clinton, "he never shouts at people; he's a motivator for his staff--even in a crisis he cracks jokes," says an adviser. He goes to movies, plays tough tennis, loves The Simpsons. He can even be seen pushing baby Leo's pram by himself in St. James's Park on a Sunday...
...persona in his playing—he is just a wonderful communicator,” Chang says. “There are many who play their instruments well on stage, but there are a select few who are able to go beyond that—who have a certain charisma that goes over the footlights—that makes the audience fall in love with them...
...cuddliness is the trait that keeps him from seeming smarmy. "He is a political leader with charisma," says a former Cabinet minister. "He knows how to speak the people's language." For a politician to come across as having school-marmish intelligence without the humanizing mushy center can mean an abbreviated career. People don't want their elementary-school principal running the country?he was bad enough when he was just running your school. We all want a bright leader, but one also equipped with an enormous heart. Whether Chen has that is a matter of some debate. Even...
...stars was Li Xianglan, born Yoshiko Yamaguchi. Moviegoers thought her Chinese, and in wartime films she became one of the most popular actresses, as well as a popular singer. Faced with postwar treason charges and possible execution, she revealed her Japanese ancestry and was deported. But Yamaguchi's charisma soon overcame her "crimes." In the '50s she made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well as in Japan (Kurosawa's Scandal). Later she was elected to several terms...
...None of the above: Milosevic's charisma faded sometime during the Bosnian war and from then on, he ruled by fear, bribery and skillful political maneuvering. Now that he is no longer in a position to intimidate or bestow gifts, he has discovered, like many autocrats before him, that all the support is suddenly gone...