Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building by Corbusier is a work of clear genius. He has disobeyed all the "rules," convoluting and twirling the plastic concrete with an insolent skill, and even using that antediluvian material glass block with flair...
...sentimental question deserves a sentimental answer, but was it really necessary to play both the Moonlight Sonata and Here Comes the Bride in the same movie? At 29, Bergman obviously thought so. But the film has flair as well as faults...
...shivered in the streets outside his hotel, concertgoers cheerfully paid four times the normal Paris prices for their tickets. Richter, in return, expressed his feelings for Paris by swooping around town with a belle epoque enthusiasm scarcely expected from a visiting Soviet-chik. "Such taste, such wonderful music, such flair!" he proclaimed, having passed an evening watching the strippers at the Crazy Horse Saloon. "I could happily spend two or three days in here...
...First Sonata, five Shostakovich preludes and fugues, Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata and, for encores, a bouquet of Prokofiev Visions Fugitives. Had his playing improved? Though the atmosphere that surrounded him could not help but candy the reviews, Paris could only say: "Such taste, such wonderful music, such flair...
...Years, Vols. II and III of Henry James, by Leon Edel. Author Edel's vast work, which will run to four volumes and which promises to be the definitive biography of James, is written with a scholar's exhaustive combing of detail and a novelist's flair for mood and motive...