Word: charisma
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...ASPIRING HE-MAN Danny (Joseph Giani) is adequate but lacks charisma. While he demonstrates an admirably versatile voice in "All Choked Up," he fails to project the strong, leading character his part requires. Fortunately, the play revolves around the two leads considerably less than the Travolta/Newton-John movie, and the rest of the cast is simply superlative...
...movie's subtle texture, effortlessly impelled by Gardener's deft editing, reveals that "it" is the sense of death that pervades daily life. Like cinema verite, "it" is based on an oxymoron. Forest of Bliss actually reasserts life by concentrating on the ceremony of dying. Vitality and color, charisma and charm, abound in the visages of the living inhabitants, most notably the fire seller, whose joie de vivre consumes the screen. And this juxtaposition of life with death necessitates audience observation, not verbal explanation...
There is no doubt that Quentin Crisp is a man of great style and great charisma, even though the man is a mass of contradictions. He appears on stage as a writer who performs rather than a performer who writes, and he is much more a wit than a philosopher. Yet at the same time, there is that odd, sensitive, moment when he can silence an audience just as well as he can draw applause...
...majority of candidates, however, are evaluated for extracurricular strengths and personal qualities, such as "intellectual curiosity, charisma, and chutzpah," Evans said...
...expansion. He has 1,200 machines out now. In a year he wants 5,000 scattered over 48 states. He is not the first to offer fish bait from a machine, but he is the first to aim for the national piscatorial throat. "The machine's got so much charisma," he says. "I tell you the charisma is unbelievable. When you make three presentations and for every three you get a solid sale, you got to have a dynamic product...