Word: elan
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Even before he matriculated at Harvard, Kummer wasted no time demonstrating the elan of a future LP. When Kummer arrived at the airport to meet coach Charley Butt, his hair was dyed bright blue. In his admissions interview, he regaled officers with an anecdote about breaking into the Cincinnati Reds’ field with his friends to play baseball by moonlight...
...Happening was compiled by Steven N. Jacobs, Emily M. Kaplan, Doug Lieb, Alexandra B. Moss, Ben B. Chung, Julie S. Greenberg, Elan A. Greenwald, Jayme J. Herschkopf, Sarah L. Solorzano and Scoop A. Wasserstein...
...formerly a TIME critic) and directed by Irwin Winkler, producer of some of the best movies (Raging Bull, The Right Stuff) of recent times--for being seduced by it. But something goes terribly wrong in the execution. Kline suggests Porter's intractable snootiness but none of his perpetually boyish elan. Judd mostly simpers. The Porters had, it seems, a marriage of inconvenience, leavened in the movie by glam settings, the irrelevant appearances of famous people and, of course, the tunes Porter is occasionally seen dashing...
...example, this film's most delightful new character is Puss In Boots (brilliantly voiced by Antonio Banderas). Hired by the King to slay Shrek but soon his ally, Puss vies with Donkey for the coveted role of "annoying talking animal." Striking a heroic pose, swishing his sword with menacing elan, he is suddenly undone by that most undignified of feline problems--a hair ball...
...motion and emotion in all his still lifes, glamour and elan in a weighty Sunday paper. Over his 80-year career, AL HIRSCHFELD'S witty hand made hardly an inapt stroke. At his death last week, five months short of his 100th birthday, this comic muralist left an inadvertent history of 20th century entertainment. For dozens of dailies and weeklies but mainly for the New York Times, Hirschfeld drew--and drew out the spirit of--virtually every celebrity from high art (Toscanini, Natalia Makarova) and popular art (Roberto Benigni, Natalie Wood). Through his pen, inanity became animate, and caricature...