Word: charisma
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...Franken takes it in stride, noting, ?In this country, celebrity trumps ideology.?) He is a kind of crucial figure, for he straddles a span that continues to shrink: the space between politicians who want to be more TV-friendly and comedians who have, in the absence of any charisma among elected Democrats, become the spokesmen for the American Left...
...studying stories, she states, “Stories have tremendous relevance to how we understand social constructions, gender relationships, power, history.” She sees stories as cultural artifacts, as worthy of study and as richly significant as other texts. In the end, Chadbourne’s charisma and warmth are only outshone by the unique power of her approach to her work. As she goes on, studying stories, she describes her work as if she is “…drawing a map. I keep filling in more places—here is another metaphor...
...pictures of the Virgin Mary and the Catholic saint Padre Pio, and four 2006 freebie calendars, none of which had yet been turned to April. The squalid conditions were "evidence of [Provenzano's] dedication to pure power," Interior Under Secretary Alfredo Mantovano told TIME. "He had acquired this perverse charisma, a figure who appears to take nothing for himself for the opportunity to rule over everyone else...
...just the right moment she turned to give the cameras a perfect backdrop of happy, flag-waving children. The emotional pitch was not quite the hormonal exchange of former U.S. President Bill Clinton working a rope line, but in her subdued way the Queen is a rock star whose charisma is curiously magnified because she seems to have no desire for the fame she cannot escape. As her limousine crawled away (she deadpanned to the chauffeur who tested it at the factory that its most important quality was how it handled at 5 km/h), she had accomplished her goal, which...
...Lula doesn't need that much charisma to stand out against his main opponent, the former Sao Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin, a dull technocrat jokingly said to have all the appeal of the chuchu, a tasteless vegetable. If Alckmin loses it will probably be more because of who he is than for what he might do. And it will probably be in spite of what Lula's party has done...