Word: charismas
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...still won't be Elvis." He points to the people. "Hell, they'll know for God's sake. They'll know it's not Elvis. You can walk like him, talk like him, sing like him, look like him--it won't be Elvis." What will be missing? Charisma? Memory? Promotion? Mabye grace. Who knows...
...Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man-celebrity, charisma, holiness or, at least, a huge friendliness...
...celebrated name in the flesh. In Mexico, which the Pope visited in early 1979 on the first foreign tour of his pontificate, Ingracia Lopez, 78, who had sat in the front row at one of the Pontiffs Masses, mourned: "He has such a great affinity for all Mexicans, such charisma, such heart. This shooting is an act of insolence." Brazilians, whom the Pope visited for twelve days last summer, referred to him in prayers as "John of God." In one dreary shanty town, where John Paul left his gold Cardinal's ring as a donation to the local church...
...touched so many people of all creeds. Indeed, during an era that knows great political leaders only in memory -Churchill, Gandhi, Mao, Roosevelt -he is the premier personality on the international stage. Like those more conventional statesmen, he has a gift for word, drama and symbol, and an indefinable charisma. Unlike them, he has been a traveling celebrity seen in person by millions, his impact multiplied many times over, like loaves and fishes, through television and the press...
...yesterday's two hour signing session was typical of her others. Birnbach's sales factors are accurate. Her preppy jokes, charisma, spot-inspections of the patrons' preppy attire, and generally witty personality wooed a Lacoste-clad crowd into buying nearly 100 copies of her book in the first hour. She dazzled patrons with her ability to describe their friends, aided only with the knowledge of the person's alma mater, which lead to the sales of more copies for more friends...