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Several Presidents have been renowned for their magnetism, which we think of as a fortunate personal trait, like good looks. But deploying charm and projecting it are histrionic skills. Franklin D. Roosevelt's appeal was heightened by the polio that crippled him in 1921. He developed the ability to make people forget his leg braces and feel at ease in his presence. Those who met him when he was President, or even saw his million-dollar smile at a distance or in a newsreel, felt heartened. Winston Churchill said being with him was like "opening a bottle of champagne." Good...
...Museum. So the dislocations of Cubism (Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp served as camoufleurs) were a huge influence, as were the visual disruptions of Vorticism in the Dazzle patterns applied to Allied ships during World War I. Dazzle made it hard for the enemy to get a fix - a trait that could also help explain the rebellious appeal of camouflage patterns since the 1980s for fashion designers like Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and pop idols from the Clash to Madonna. Whatever the angle, "Camouflage" is a must-see. www.iwm.org.uk
Sexiest physical trait: Is my name Jimmy “brooding eyes” O’Keefe...
...landmark 1968 book, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812, was not intended to critique modern race relations. But its layered research--which showed an absence of racism when whites and blacks first encountered each other as equals--proved that discrimination was not an ingrained American trait but a cruel and unusual choice...
Sexiest physical trait: I’m built to run. And I feel pretty lucky every day because...