Word: charisma
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...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...
...other aspects of ’00s pop culture. It’s great campy fun (Alan Cumming and Parker Posey obviously relish their villain roles) with a catchy soundtrack, underpinned by an admirable powerful-grrl ethic. Rachael Leigh Cook’s eyes sparkle with charisma as bandleader Josie, Tara Reid makes an agreeably ditsy Melody, and Reid’s boyfriend Carson Daly parodies the hand that feeds him. Is Josie a signal of the end of mindless pop music and culture? Probably not, but as supposedly disposable movie fluff it’s savvier than...
...about as bright as a manatee, stole the election... It's atrocious to me how he did it. I believe he was a coke dealer just a few years ago...The man has all the charisma of an egg-timer and doesn't come off as a leader of the Free World," Chase said...