Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happening. At the film, each member of the audience functions as a separate Caesar, deciding electronically which way the Tongue-in-Czech story should progress (TIME, May 5). The film itself is little more than an oddball triangle carried to a screwball extreme, but Director Josef Svoboda demonstrates his flair for Sennett-style comedy in a rousing custard-pie and fire-engine finale...
Glorious Blaze. The Wobbly martyrs had a flair for last words. Convicted on debatable evidence of the murder...
...Negro security guard and a Negro youth with a can of beer; the second night's with the arrest of Black Power Leader Stokely Carmichael, 26, and four companions, for disregarding police orders to leave the area. Undaunted, Carmichael returned the next night to demonstrate his peculiar flair for inflammable oratory...
...lights and set were spartan -- they did the job, but with no flair. Larry Johnson's music turned out to be relatively inconspicuous. The first act featured an incongruously serious introduction and a marvelous, somewhat Schonbergian, dance for the finale. The second act music largely consisted of humorous distortions of traditional tunes. This approach jibed much better with the action and made the second act a little more unified than the first. But unity isn't the central issue, anyhow. The whole evening is a series of little episodes, more of an amusing revue than a play...
When they opened for business last spring, the brash young founders of Manhattan's new advertising agency, Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., promised to "build the most profitable agency in history." With a flair that made even Madison Avenue eyebrows twitch, they started out by getting just about the most publicity in history...