Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foggiest of reasons, both Fantomas and the hot-shot Parisian journalist who seeks to undo him are played by Jean Marais. He has neither Batman's flair nor James Bond's cool, though he can easily look squarer than Superman. Passionate self-parody is Marais's gimmick, and he earns a snicker whenever he detours into the arms of that demoiselle-in-distress, Mylène Demongeot, at one point with such fervency that he seems about to fling himself out of a rising helicopter...
Cavanagh has a taste for consensus (if we can still use that word) which he has been able to indulge as Fifties Liberals never could. He has a flair for public relations, and there has been an endless stream of articles praising him in the same newspapers and magazines that have always attacked Williams...
...supper with friends at Annabel's, London's leading discothèque (which happens to be right downstairs), the handsome son of a peer breezes up for "a spot of chemmy." Chairs are found for his group to watch; drinks are passed. In three hours, playing with flair, he wins $210,000. Satisfied, but not flaunting his coup, he departs. But before the chauffeur can wheel his Bentley out from all the others, the Right Honourable realizes that he forgot to get a chit for his winnings. He goes back. Tempted by his luck, he tries another...
...prominence lasted little more than a decade, but while it did Frederic Edwin Church caught the imagination of the American public as no other U.S. painter had before. In the 1850s, his eloquent flair for embodying the nation's grand notion of "manifest destiny" made his paintings public events. On one day alone in 1857, Horace Greeley, George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense...
...allow barefoot children to attend Mass. He begged money for food for the starving. He tried to do something about the ancient stink of the picturesque airless houses and to stop children playing in the open sewers. He discovered that when appeals to charity failed, he could exploit a flair for dramatizing unpleasant statistics and shame Rome itself into granting public funds for public relief. When all else failed, he fasted...