Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1920s, when Paris was still the uncontested capital of haute couture, the unchallenged queen regnant of Paris fashion was petite, disdainful Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel. A bored, restless, country-bred orphan who fled to the city at 17 with no capital beyond her native Auvergnate shrewdness, Chanel had parlayed a flair for simple elegance into a million-dollar fashion business whose headquarters was the distinctive salon at 31 Rue Cambon, Paris...
Suddenly Paris was aware that a man was organizing a Resistance against the cold. Bearded and gaunt, wearing a black cape with the flair of an actor, a 41-year-old priest called Abbé Pierre was rocketing through the city in a tiny green Renault, collecting old clothes, setting up distribution points, opening emergency shelters. From radios and the stages of theaters, on street corners and in churches, the soft voice of Abbé Pierre appealed: "My friends, help...
...general, and numerous other members of the family were up and down the board and I hadn't seen so much gold braid and stuff since the lying-in-state of George V. But why shouldn't they put on some dog? They have a flair for it, and the Court of St. James's is no more authentic than this one . . . Trujillo's enemies say that he and members of his family have reaped great financial profit. Well, so did the Roosevelts...
...spotless: that is the point of a Boston opening. Some lines were forgotten and cues missed in the first act; the final interview between Hans and Ondine is too long and immobile and the final curtain is painfully slow. But Alfred Lunt has molded the show with an amazing flair for the whimsical and fantastic. to him and the company, especially to Miss Hepburn, go a large assortment of honors...
...part that matters is a light farce, leaning toward sophisticated pratfalls rather than clever dialogue. The basic plot leaves much room for the actors to develop laughs, featuring a crew of "ninety day wonders" who are testing a subchaser that sports a new type steam eingine possessed of a flair for the dramatic. Shanghaied from the Mr. Roberts set, the crew does nothing new, but does it well; the engine is obviously the American branch of the same mechanical family that spawned the device in The Man in the White Suit. Led by Eddie Albert and Jack Webb, the officers...