Word: mesmeric
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...Welles (the nickname that was applied to him as much in honor as in derision). Large, fleshy and handsome, with unslakable ambition and infectious dynamism, he gained instant legend; between Einstein and Ray Charles, Welles was the fellow to whom the word "genius" was most easily applied. He had Mesmer?s charm; his voice could hypnotize, his gaze entrance. "When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that?s been watered" (Marlene Dietrich). "It?s like meeting God without dying" (Dorothy Parker). He landed in the American consciousness like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, his prodigious youth the stuff...