Word: charme
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Nowadays, "charisma" has come to mean little more than "charm" or "attractiveness." It is in this spirit that a Seattle Times reporter recently dubbed the Indigo Girls a "charismatic duo," and the Minneapolis Star Tribune called Minn. Gov. Jesse Ventura "a man so charismatic, he can insult and inspire in the same breath...
...staffers, who lead lives of charm and privelage, recently put out the call for new editors. You can't apply now, though, since applications have been overdue...
While Case plays the statesman and AOL president Robert Pittman deploys the substantial charm of a born salesman, the next few levels of management harbor a cadre of "killers and cutthroats," says a former analyst intimately familiar with the company. AOL's laid-back latte drinkers took early retirement ("I just didn't want to sit in on any more screaming matches," says one), while the real sharks, believing themselves invulnerable because of their vast wealth, continued to swim the halls in Dulles. The piped-in music may be the Eagles, and the furnishings may look as if the Ikea...
...course, there are exceptions to this rule. When applying to grad schools, for example, you're just another application, a set of numbers. You might get an interview in which you can show off your personality, but even the smoothest of cats can't charm his way into Yale Law if he doesn't have the scores. But even then, school doesn't last forever (this is unsettling news to many people), and then the connection game starts up again when the hunt for a real...
...comic chef doeuvre. The set design, in particular, contrasts the real and the imagined, the familiar and the foreign, the west and the non-west. The first set, where the male protagonists first discuss their desire to play Earnest, is a wonderful mix of European fin-de-siecle charm and the exoticism of the East. Long silk saris drape the fabric wall paper of this 19th century English drawingroom. A hookah adorns the mantelpiece, and a Gaugin-like scene of Tahiti floats above a Rodin-like Cupid. Set Designer Nithya Raman '02 has adroitly brought an exotic, mystical flavor...