Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, dry, clear weather of the kind that prevailed the evening he played with the Boston Symphony in Carnegie Hall last week is just what Janis needs. With the temperature in the 405, the moon radiant and the barometer steady, Janis played with feeling and virtuoso flair through Liszt's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. His piano sound positively glittered...
Janis' playing, as a result, tends to be taut and full of nervous energy. In the coolly classic moods of a composer like Mozart, his performances can be erratic, but few pianists have Janis' flair for the big bravura pieces of Tchaikovsky or Liszt. Last week's concert, studded with thunderous chords and octaves, Zipperlike runs and occasionally a singing, tenoresque line, proved to be a wrist-breaking tour de force. When he came out to take a bow, looking as frail as Liszt himself, Pianist Janis seemed the least exhausted man in the house...
Leading the French delegation will be Louis Joxe, 59, De Gaulle's Minister for Algerian Affairs. An ex-teacher and journalist, Joxe is a sophisticated intellectual with an instinctive flair for politics. "All in all," says a friend, "a cool sort of fellow." At the head of the F.L.N. team will probably be stubborn, soft-spoken Ahmed Francis, 49, who has spent the past four years as the F.L.N.'s chief fund raiser and accountant. A World War II French army medical officer and former Deputy in the French Assembly, Francis is a close personal friend of rebel...
...back ers have already bought 868,667 shares of Alleghany, plus preferred shares and warrants that could bring their total to 2,168,811 shares, thus giving them a slight edge over the Kirby camp, which at last count controlled a potential 1,944,687 shares. With a Texas flair for gambling, the Murchisons are clearly going for double or nothing. They will know if their gamble paid off when the proxy ballots are counted at the annual company meeting...
...well feel such a Suffering Bastard (rums, lime and liqueurs) that he will want to see Dr. Funk of Tahiti ("redolent of French rums and absinthe"). Actually, the author of these "Polynesian" cocktails has never roamed the South Seas. Nevertheless, salty, peg-legged Victor Bergeron, 58, has parlayed a flair for serving good food amid a supply of grass skirts, Tiki gods and outrigger canoes into the most successful chain of seaweed restaurants west of Suez: Trader...