Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vellucci possessed the instinctive ability to play both sides of the fence. He has a flair for grasping interesting issues and exploiting them. Like most other councillors, he has his own entourage of friends and informants to supplement his knowledge of what's going on in Cambridge...
...easy. Says Ralph Brandon: "We based our first decision to enter the business on the premise that people are alike all over the world. We weren't wrong then, and we still haven't been proved wrong." The Brandon brothers have been helped, of course, by their flair for promotional showmanship and their insistence that their stores mark prices low enough to ensure fast turnover (the new Rome store's expected gross this year: $5,000,000). After only a year, Minimax is well on its way to becoming one of the largest retail food chains...
William Buckingham's merry set proclaims the play a pageant. An inspired Touchstone could have made it one If, in his first soliloquy, he had won the audience, the runnings about of the next two hours would have had coherence. But Peter Charles Johnson didn't have the necessary flair. He was convincing as an honest craftsman, but no more...
...special La Traviata for her. Stratas did not let him down. Her singing of Verdi's virginal strumpet, Violetta, swept the packed house into a record 43 minutes of tumultuous applause. Raved the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Stratas intuitively found everything that makes the part touching, the erotic flair of the doomed girl, the fire and despair of her heart. Her light, balanced soprano obeys each impulse: from tender lyricism to great dramatic explosion, from giddy parlando to dolorous espressivo, everything is luminescent and enchanting...
...sure, the usual crudities are there; the puns, the stylized gestures, the obvious right gags guffaws from drunks and old grads alike. is also an excellent entertainment. The songs have sound and wit; the dances are uniformly fine; and the whole production, from resplendent costumes has a boisterous flair seldom seen in Cambridge...