Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mambo syncopations were ticking in Cuban Bandleader Prado's head as long ago as 1942. and he wrote them into arrangements for local bands. Six years later in Mexico, he formed his own band, and the mambo beat began to catch on. Prado's flair for the wild style-something like that of Stan Kenton's modernist crew -sold him with the jazz buffs and his insistent rhythm with the dancers...
...understand?and, most of all, on skill. It may be even harder to picture things the world never saw than to picture everyday things, yet Tanguy paints the odd detritus of his dreams as crisply, convincingly and decoratively as Chardin painted food and wine. He also has a literary flair. Tanguy's paintings may be practically interchangeable, but the obscure titles he gives them are varied and provocative?Mama, Papa Is Wounded! Slowly Toward the North; Extinction of Useless Lights; Divisibility Undefined...
Youth was knocking at the door, politely but firmly. In as party secretary general stepped brisk, bright, 46-year-old Amintore Fanfani, an economist with a flair for politics and an eye for power. Fanfani led his Democratic Initiative faction to a clean sweep of party offices at Naples a month ago, thus made himself De Gasperi's logical successor (TIME, July 12). He knows the government like a stock table, having served in six cabinets as Minister of Labor, Agriculture and Interior and briefly as Premier earlier this year. "I am sure," De Gasperi once prophesied, "that...
...laughed the long-lackluster New York Giants into a state of combative enterprise. A husky (180 lbs., 5 ft. 11 in), smooth-muscled athlete with a broad, guileless face, he plays baseball with a boy's glee, a pro's sureness and a champion's flair. On the ball diamond, he is in a hurry; he never walks when there is room to run, even if only from bench to field or field to shower room. In the broad domain of centerfield, Mays covers ground with limber-legged speed to pull down balls tagged with the promise...
...facts. The Fall of a Titan, a midsummer choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is no literary blockbuster, but it does score a direct hit on modern Soviet man and the system that has shaped him. It reveals, despite occasional amateurish moments, that Gouzenko has a professional flair; he travels this long literary distance at an unflagging and often exciting pace...