Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martinsburg, W. Va., the intervening Byrds had made money, mainly as talented lawyers, built some fine mansions in Winchester, Va. Harry's father, Richard, was perhaps the most brilliant of the lot, a spectacular courtroom figure with black hair that seemed electrified, steel-rimmed glasses and a flair for oratory. Richard was a colorful politician-he was elected speaker of the Virginia House after just one term. With offbeat humor, he named his three sons Tom, Dick and Harry (they arrived in reverse order), was to take great pleasure in their later success: Tom in business, Dick...
...Bella is a hero almost by accident. He has no clear ideology, but a talent for ringing phrases, no strong political organization, but considerable political flair. He often seems unsure of himself, but can also be arrogant and tough. Born of simple country parents in the west Algerian town of Marnia, he served as a master sergeant in the French army in World War II, became a terrorist for the Algerian nationalists, was one of the nine founders of the F.L.N. Captured by the French in 1956, he was imprisoned for the next 5½ years. That was a rare...
...case, as originally unearthed by Social Worker Thomas E. Gaddis in his 1955 book, Bird Man of Alcatraz. Fact is, Stroud, offscreen. was a stiff-necked, arrogant, impenitent man and at least initially a homicidal threat to society. Like Caryl Chessman, he had just enough brilliance and flair for publicity to amass widespread public sympathy for his cause...
...whips are so heavily burdened with party duties that they have little chance to make their mark in the House, Heath leaped at the job, which he saw as a unique opportunity to master the subtle inner mechanisms of Parliament and party. Thanks to a natural and sometimes ruthless flair for handling men and anticipating trouble, he rose rapidly through the whips' ranks until, in 1955, he was elected chief whip...
...sheriff (Walter Matthau) who heads the manhunt is not stupid, but a humane and humorous man who admires his adversary's gallantry at the same time that he pities his folly. Matthau is an actor of magnetic presence and great comic flair. In this film he looks like a young Robert Benchley and sounds almost as amusing. In a role that calls for him to be someone, rather than to act something, Kirk Douglas is totally and movingly convincing. Philip Lathrop's camera work has harsh dramatic clarity and Jerry Goldsmith's score just the right mixture...