Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wound. The actors, however, under brilliant coaching by Director Joseph Anthony, use their weapons with such skill and fury that the beholder can often mistake words for swords. In all, the play lacks the emotional substance of important drama, but it has the cerebral excitement and the visual flair of superior theater...
...Swedish movies that have trickled in the great flood prove that the big three don't have the same monopoly over quality which they seem to possess over quantity. Such films as Torment and The Great Adventure reveal the Swedes as masters of photographic technique with a special flair for subtle psychological themes...
...chilly fall day at Shannon Airport five years ago, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Stan ("Postcards") Delaplane stepped up to a bar for a bracer. From the other side, he was handed a drink he had never tasted before. Delaplane inquired and got-complete with an Irishman's flair for a tale-Bartender Joe Sheridan's explanation of the origin of the drink...
After nearly nine years of ostensibly happy though businesslike marriage Publisher (Look) Gardner Cowles, 52, and his editor (Flair) wife, ex-Adwoman Fleur Fenton Cowles, surprised even their intimates by agreeing to "a very amiable, friendly separation ... no immediate plans for divorce." A girl wonder at 16 (when she landed a $100-a-week advertising job), Fleur recently signed a new three-year contract to stay on as associate editor of Look, will also remain as a director of Cowles Magazines...
...scalp the others in the fight for sales. At the top of the heap, and battling to stay in the No. 1 spot, is Anheuser-Busch's President August Anheuser Busch Jr., grandson of Co-Founder Adolphus. Like his grandfather, "Gussie" Busch is a salesman with a flair for advertising and promotion, combining dawn-to-dusk energy with dusk-to-dawn good fellowship. Says Busch: "This is the year that we are going to separate the men from the boys in the brewing industry...