Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite as successful nor imaginatively directed was the Handel Jubilate that concluded the first half of the program. Though a somewhat standard Handel composition which I have always thought lacked the flair and magnificence he achieved in his other works, it is still fine, powerful music always worth hearing...
...venture in 1957, his Eastern friends told him he was dizzy from the altitude. The skeptics now trek west to see his dizzying success. The present season will see polished performances ranging from Don Giovanni and Madame Butterfly to Honegger's Joan of Arc, combined with a flair for the new. In the much-anticipated American premiere of the late Alban Berg's unfinished, powerful and grittily atonal opera Lulu, Soprano Joan Carroll will sing the dissolute heroine...
...playboy days as Elizabeth Taylor's first husband, is now a hard-working vice president in charge of Hilton Inns; but Nick, in the eyes of many, lacks the ambition and imagination to succeed his father. Barren Hilton, 35, -also a vice president-has his father's flair for deals, but the board blames him for losing money running the Carte Blanche credit card venture. Another son, Eric, has worked his way up through the ranks to become resident manager of Houston's Shamrock Hilton, but is only 30. Many are betting on fast-rising Bob Caverly...
...helped them in Europe but not in two previous attempts to enter the U.S. One C. & A. store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue failed in the 1950s, and a second store in Brooklyn is hardly a moneymaker. With Ohrbach's, the Brenninkmeyers hope to acquire the retailing flair of a U.S. company that has made a name for itself by imaginative advertising and artful merchandising of low-budget high-style Paris copies. Eventually, the Brenninkmeyers hope to expand across...
...Means, however, was for real. When he died at 59 in 1938, he was justifiably reckoned to be just about the most preposterous liar and swindler ever to smile at a sucker. In Spectacular Rogue, Author-Journalist Edwin Hoyt examines that certain smile with more journalistic competence than stylistic flair. Still, Gaston Means himself would be pleased...