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DURHAM, N.H.--Charisma is a tough quality to learn. But after 10 months on the campaign trail, Democratic candidate for president Paul E. Tsongas might finally be catching...
...movie welds snippets of scenes from the novel to elements of the writer's life: his accidental shooting of his wife Joan; his friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Paul and Jane Bowles; his own sepulchral charisma. With his cracked voice and deadpan insolence, Burroughs was the Beat Generation's W.C. Fields -- a raconteur of depravity, a cracker-barrel coroner. Weller gets the haunted look right, but he can't get inside the junkie's pocked skin. Burroughs lived and nearly died there; Cronenberg and the actors are only visiting. The movie is way too colorful -- cute, in a repulsive...
Some name recognition--charisma as well...
Director of Dining Services Michael Berry demonstrated that energy, creativity and charisma can do wonders in solving tough institutional problems. The mission of a "diversity czar" would clearly be more weighty than that of the Mealtime Messiah...
Rizzo would have made a difficult opponent for Edward G. Rendell, the Democratic candidate. But Rizzo died of a heart attack over the summer, and his replacement had none of his charisma. Rendell swept almost 70 percent of the vote...