Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonderful sense of phrasing and a beautiful voice, but she never forgets to sing with a great deal of soul," says Waltzer, who will likely be producing jazz shows at Lincoln Center in New York this fall. "She has so much charm and enthusiasm that she'll be successful in whatever she does...
...course, intangibles like charm have long influenced political choice. But when Bob Dole or Bill Clinton heads for the late night talk show circuit, there is a difference. Charm is not checked by hard questioning; trust and credibility do not settle into an equilibrium. Personality is all that comes through. The audience witnesses the complete divorce of the person and the politics, the former inflated at the expense of the latter. Politicians should not so beguile the voters that their policy views become secondary Ideally, politicians should be ciphers for certain ideologies, the more personally transparent, the better...
...judging politicians we should consider one other intangible as well: dignity. It is far undervalued these days but it is ultimately more important than charm. For a while it might be funny to see the President blow his horn on Arsenio, for the Senate Minority Leader to trade gags with Jay Leno. We might even come to enjoy seeing Al Gore doing a "stupid human trick" on Late Night with David Letterman...
Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State are an odd couple. The President has never met a crowd he believed impervious to his smarts and charm; he is never more alive than in front of the cameras as the Oprah of health care and unemployment. Warren Christopher, a natural introvert old enough to be Clinton's father, glides into a room as silently as a monk. His gravelly monotone and wrinkled poker face give nothing away, his mobile eyes are friendly but curiously unreadable. His Establishment-lawyer virtues come not from the era of MTV but from the days...
...could tape his own windows or suffer the consequences. He made good use of his experience, writing a thesis on the Thames as a commercial highway during the Middle Ages. Later, he was to write a book on his English experience, illustrated with his own photographs that caught the charm of a very different land...