Word: charisma
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Gerald Demas '04 also cites West's charisma, in addition to his prominence, as reasons for waiting for West's return...
...took a step that critics call anti-African: reimposing the funding ban for overseas family-planning agencies that are linked to abortion services (many of those agencies provide counseling and care for African AIDS victims). Powell's input on the decision isn't known. No doubt the general's charisma and star power will give him a comfortable honeymoon, so he can avoid such questions for a while. But the Washington press has a way of building you up so it can knock you down. As his former colleagues at the Pentagon say, he'd better prepare for incoming...
...with a 54-year-old ex-president with a restless brain and a surplus of charisma, this was the part we were waiting for - "I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead." Question: Was he therefore that deeply cynical when he entered the Oval Office...
Until then, almost everyone who met Chmura assumed--no, they knew--he was going places after pro ball. To a network broadcast booth perhaps, to political office or, with his striking looks and easy charisma, maybe even Hollywood. He also worked overtime to develop an image of Sunday-morning rectitude. In May 1997, citing a golf tournament, he skipped the President's White House reception for the Packers honoring their Super Bowl victory. "I knew it all along," Chmura said later, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. "It doesn't really say much for society and the morals [Bill Clinton...
THEN AGAIN... For all the dramatic incident and giddy camerawork (Schnabel, whose day job is painting, wants to keep this canvas moving, for any or no reason), the film is pretty logy, a trudging catalog of depredations and atrocities. Bardem hasn't the charisma to bring variety to Arenas or his plight. The only leavenings are guest turns by Depp (good in two roles, as the torturer and a drag queen) and Sean Penn, in gold tooth and brownface, as a skeptical peasant. Penn's twisted delivery of the line, "I won't join the rebels"--it comes...