Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps so, in the case of people with limited nerve and imagination. But for those with flair, fashion has seldom been more exciting. "Instant individualism" is how Henri Bendel President Geraldine Stutz describes what is happening, and she notes that it is also a safe way to dress. After all, she says, "no two people can really come out with the same combination, even if they use the same six or seven components...
...true visual flair, nothing beats rhythm-and-blues. Snazzy-stepping, soul-singing performers like James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...
Berryman uses English with great imagination and flair. There are supposed to be two schools of American poetry: one that is effluent like Whitman and Ginsberg, and one that is precise and economical, like Frost or Lowell. Berryman is a member of both groups, being both extravagant and craftsman-like. One has the feeling that each poem was once much larger, and that he has somehow squeezed it all up. His words expand to take in more and more, and then collapse together, so that when one reads them, they explode in the mind, like the little pills that become...
With a histrionic flair for the crude, sardonic image, Wallace lampoons all of "them," assuring his listeners that they themselves are just as smart as the people in positions of power. The bureaucrats who enforce school-desegregation guidelines "don't have enough sense to know how to get out of bed in the morning, so they have to write a guideline for us." Intellectuals are "overeducated, ivory-tower folk," or "pointy-headed professors who can't even park a bicycle straight." He says: "Any truck driver'd know right off what to do at the scene of an accident...
...honest science fiction, Charly would be laughable at best. But with its contrived poignancy and shallow pretensions at making a statement about the supposed menace of unchecked medical experimentation, it is downright ludicrous. As the moron turned polymath, Robertson displays a certain flair for Chaplinesque humor. The impact of his performance, however, is lessened by Producer-Director Ralph Nelson's determination to prove that he learned how to be new and now at Expo '67: almost every other sequence is done in split screens, multiple images, still shots or slow motion. There is a modest redeeming feature...