Word: charisma
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Frontman Tom P. Lowe ‘05 sang at first to an almost empty floor on Wednesday. But the band played with an energy and charisma disproportionate to the crowd, unleashing catchy, beat-driven rock and jazz to an initially timid group of high schoolers...
...many chances for the acting in the film to impress audiences. The character development is satisfactory but not great: actors spend the vast majority of the movie running, swimming, stumbling, and hiding away from the deadly tripod machines. But the brief development and Cruise’s natural charisma are enough to keep the audience’s sympathy—and attention...
...there are sharp divisions on how to manage the country's stagnant economy. Montazeri is the youngest of Iran's handful of Grand Ayatullahs and has an undistinguished reputation as a religious scholar. Considered more of a pragmatist than Khomeini, Montazeri is also said to lack his mentor's charisma and oratorical skills. The timing of the announcement did not appear to coincide with any worsening of Khomeini's health. Last Saturday the Ayatullah stood in public for 30 minutes to deliver a speech marking the Prophet Muhammad's birthday. Khomeini walked comfortably and unaided. WEST GERMANY Twice Bought, Twice...
...like a nettle) goes to war, quits and goes again. The patrician Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski) rebels against her snooty mother and sisters to become a kind of Cenderella Liberty, cheerleading Tom to cream those Brits. So does Annie Lennox, of the pop duo Eurythmics, whose charisma is edited out of this chaotic 2-hr. 4-min. mess...
...message," Hart says, outlining the lessons he has drawn from 1984. "I'm more convinced than ever that it's not personality or charisma or endorsements or even money. It's message: to say something that people are waiting to hear and want to hear, and that makes sense, and that inspires." The core of his message is that the U.S. economy is "headed off a cliff," that strong federal intervention is needed to keep it from toppling over, but that the spending programs advocated by traditional Democrats will not do the job. Mondale's mocking cry of "Where...