Word: charisma
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...founded a remarkable and unique organization," said Charles P. Ducey, director of the BSC. Perry's "great charisma" convinced the Harvard administration to fund the BSC, according to Ducey...
...Sometimes at lunch with bishops, he will joke about his popular appeal," says Paul Cardinal Poupard. "He will say, 'That's the charisma of Peter.'" Yet intimates also say he is insistent that his role as Pope not be confused with his own person. He doesn't use the papal we but always says, "I think," "I believe," "I wonder." He is a good listener who asks questions and puts people at ease, says a senior Vatican official. "After five minutes you forget you're talking to the Pope. It is like friends talking over coffee." Though he devotes much...
Gore wouldn't get my vote. Hillary Clinton is the logical choice for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Her meeting with Tony Blair underscores her charisma and political savvy. And just a few years ago, she scared the health-care industry into lowering my premiums about 10%. I am a 65-year-old, lifelong Republican, but I will vote for Hillary if she heads the Democratic ticket--even if she is running against Elizabeth Dole, my first-choice Republican candidate. WILLIAM S. GAITHER Philadelphia...
...actor (the first of many ironies) who uses his charm and chutzpah to snowball the entire American West into believing that a new government has been created (in Minneapolis, of all places) and that postal routes are being reestablished all over the country. Costner, however, is so devoid of charisma and conviction that you wonder why anyone would believe in him. If he ever makes a movie about Santa Claus and casts himself in the lead, thousands of children across the nation will cry themselves to sleep in a fever of disillusionment. Thus, when Abby (Olivia Williams), the Postman...
Directed with a delicate hand by James Lapine, the new version is underplayed, almost muted, yet gripping in its down-to-earth immediacy. Perhaps because Natalie Portman's Anne is a little short on stage charisma, the story shifts slightly away from her and more toward the complex ensemble of people coping with their terror and with one another. George Hearn as Otto Frank has a hushed dignity; the Van Daans (Harris Yulin and Linda Lavin) seem less foolish and more touching than before. The play was a professional Broadway job to begin with; now it sometimes reaches poetry...