Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notion of the perfect political ticket. The coach is a Brooklyn Jew. The quarterback is a WASP-a Pentecostal minister's son from the Deep South. And the star pass receiver is a Negro. But whatever their differences, the Giants have one thing in common: an unpredictable flair for the dramatic...
...1930s, Munch was the toast of Paris, where he was known as le beau Charles. Summoned to Boston to replace the old autocrat Serge Koussevitzky, the stately conductor earned the admiration of his musicians for his easy, gracious manners; Bostonians responded to his sense of drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch was happiest with the music of the 19th century French Romantics, to which he brought a poetic vibrance of color and texture. Last year French Cultural Minister André Malraux hired him out of retirement...
Tony Perkins gives his best film performance since Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), while Tuesday Weld again demonstrates that, with good material and good directing, she has an uncommon flair for roles of curdled innocence...
...that they must combine drama and music in almost equal parts. Regina Resnik's vocal stagecraft is nearly unexcelled. This disk offers a variety of songs, each a sharp, clear miniature of a thought, a mood or a conflict. Bronx-born Resnik employs her practical intelligence, her personal flair and her firmly controlled mezzo throughout the recording. But she is most effective when her Russian ancestry boils to the surface in a gloomy Prokofiev work. The Pillars, which she renders with wrenching despair...
...precisely this kind of pretentious writing that has given the nouveau roman a bad name. Not that Duras need be so dull. She has a flair for describing violent action and an undoubted talent for inventing plots. It is simply that she is too ambitious for her fairly limited gifts...