Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love). While Mississippi Dip is a blues to be taken lithely, A Taste of Honey switches tempos faster than the foot can follow, building to heated ensemble crescendos behind Frank Foster's tenor and Jerry Dodgion's flute solos. New Girl, composed by Pearson, has a graceful flair and a nifty construction...
Although the work baffled some and bemused others, it had a cohesive rhythm of its own, and it succeeded in gripping the attention of the Tanglewood audience through its sheer theatrical flair. Silverman, 30, is music director of Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and an evangelist for a new form of music-theater. As a former student of Leon Kirchner and Darius Milhaud, he has a solid background in "pure" classical composition. But, he says, "I wanted to get into pop music and rock. I can do this much better than the other stuff. Musical comedy...
...Corp. in Washington, she often owns nothing but miniskirts. "The men huff and puff, and the old maids grimace, but what are you going to do?" Another factor is the influx of Negro and Spanish-speaking workers, many of whom are less inhibited by convention, thus dress with more flair...
...first major mistake in the career of George Armstrong Custer was his promotion to major-general during the Civil War: he flailed through Virginia with a cavalryman's flair that killed as many of his own men as those of the Rebels. After the war, as a brevet brigadier. Custer was assigned to Indian Territory and left part of his troop to canter back to his wife for "home leave." Two of his men were slaughtered en route. His final error occurred on the Little Big Horn, when Custer led more than 200 men to their deaths...
Couve is a unusual man in an unusual situation. He has neither a political following nor the flair for creating one. He does not even have any special clout within the Gaullist party. His power resides solely in his relationship with the man whom he serves-a fact that must please De Gaulle. Up to now, Couve has always acknowledged that he knew who was boss. "There are no problems between myself and the general," he once said. "If there were, my role would be to yield to him." But last week Couve hinted that he would stand...