Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alpert, 28, is an ex-Army trumpeter who has played taps for as many as 18 military funerals a day. Experimenting with a tape recorder in his garage one day, Alpert found that by overdubbing one trumpet solo on top of another, he could produce an intriguing "Spanish flair." The effect proved most rewarding in Twinkle Star, a song written by a friend...
Claiborne's flair for entertaining also led him to write a regular feature on the country's outstanding hosts and hostesses. It is already so widely read that one woman begged to be included because "to be on the Times's food page is the newest status symbol in New York." She didn't make...
Names Make Money. Europe's public relations men have adopted basic U.S. techniques, but have translated them into their own national idioms, frequently adding style and flair in the process. To convince Englishmen of the merits of regular dry cleaning, the P.R. division of the Smith-Warden advertising agency put two of its executives in white suits, had them tramp to work through dirty London streets for a month, showing vividly how much dirt a suit can collect in normal wear. Reaching ahead to generations of new passengers, the public relations staff of Germany's Lufthansa Airlines helps...
...chronicle of carnival is a commonplace of fashionable fiction, but this attempt is anything but commonplace. Author Cole, a 32-year-old lecturer in the humanities at M.I.T., has wit, charm, timing, a flair with atmosphere, a felicity of verbal gesture, a feeling for character so insidious it persuades the reader that every person of the drama is really just an unlived aspect of his own self. An End to Chivalry is a beginning of brilliance...
...third movement was as lovely as the first, and the winds were back in form. Leinsdorf's annoying flair for the unnecessarily dramatic got the better of his judgement at the end of it, however, and he went into the fourth movement without a pause. The audience was visibly disconcerted (we jumped), and Leinsdorf compounded his error by having the chorus stand on cue when this opening motive returned, an effect comparable to having them arrive in a burst of lightning...