Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Two one-acters, both directed with a crisp and zany comic flair by Elaine May. Miss May's own play, Adaptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Terrence McNally's Next features James Coco in a splendid performance as an overage potential draftee...
ADAPTATION-NEXT. Two one-acters, both directed with a crisp and zany comic flair by Elaine May. Miss May's own play, Adaptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Terrence Mc-Nally's Next features James Coco in a splendid performance as an overage potential draftee...
...auto accident last summer. Rockefeller met the courtly d'Harnoncourt, an extraordinarily knowledgeable specialist on primitive art, in the late 1930s. Together, they built Rockefeller's collection into one of the finest in the world. In 1949, he became director of the Modern, demonstrating a flair for showmanship, fund-raising and that mysterious ability that knits an organization together...
...when he was the obscure, if fractious, leader-in-exile of Nazi-occupied France. Since then he has been the subject of nine other TIME cover stories and appeared last when he said non to devaluation of the franc. His successor could hardly match the general's flair for making news-or, for that matter, his disdain for the press. Reported Paris Bureau Chief Rademaekers: "One covered De Gaulle from a distance-like a moon shot. Journalists invited to visit the Elysee Palace always entered by the servants' entrance. We still enter by the same door...
INVITATION TO A BEHEADING. As a play Russell McGrath's adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov novel is less than successful, but Ming Cho Lee's set is elegant, Gerald Freedman's direction is deft, and the acting is high-styled and full of flair...