Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British-born newsman, Pegler dropped out of high school and landed a $10-a-week job as a United Press office boy at the age of 16. After World War I naval service, he turned to sportswriting, first for United Press, then for the Chicago Tribune. His flair for words made him a success. By 1929, he was earning $25,000 a year. In 1933, Scripps-Howard enticed him to write a more general column, and a dozen years later he shifted to Hearst's King Features Syndicate, where his income soon reached an estimated $90,000 a year...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. An evening of one-acters, both directed with great comic flair by Elaine May. In Miss May's Adaptalion, a contestant plays the game of life as if it were a TV game with penalties and bonuses. In Terrence McNally's Next, his best play to date, an overage potential draftee is subjected to a humiliating pre-induction examination...
...literary flair, Halberstam's Odyssey lacks the historical detail of 55 Days-The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy, by Jules Witcover (Putnam's; $6.95). As chief political writer for the Newhouse newspapers, Witcover, 41, saw more of the campaign than Halberstam, and what he failed to see he diligently traced through those who did. Written chronologically (from January 1968 through the June funeral), 85 Days abounds in unreported behind-the-scenes incidents and anecdotes. The author notes, for example, that Kennedy seriously urged TV Newscaster Walter Cronkite to run for Senator in New York. He vividly re-creates...
Stagecoach Rides. Ellman's flair for this sort of thing, based on a canny assessment of the average diner, has made him one of the most successful restaurateurs in the U.S. Starting with a $2,000 investment in ten Coke machines in 1949, Ellman built up a thriving vending-machine and cafeteria business that he sold for $50,000 in 1958. He then sank the proceeds into a modest Man hattan steak house. He redecorated it in dude-ranch western, renamed it the Cattleman, promoted it fiercely with various gimmicks, including free stage coach rides for the kiddies...
...perfect solution is a musical-a type of film in which style (its basic currency) and ideals (its subject) have freedom without getting too heavy. Brian Kahin's new Barbara Baby is more successful than one could expect. It investigates our dreams through idealistic characters whose flair infects the film. Inventive camerawork-pixillation, fantasy sequences, beautiful cutting-establishes the characters and their Panachethrough their appearances-and simultaneously exposes their shallowness, the characters, the limitations of their flair. The film, through its characters, maintains the ideal balance between being moving and shallow, romantic and absurd-not by attacking romanticism...