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Word: flair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of it. As Evans puts it, Bailey was "the prototype of the dashing Cockney photographer"-and the prototype for the hero of Blow-Up. Other photographers, of course, collected a lot of money and a lot of girls. But few did it with Bailey's flair. A tailor's apprentice at 15, he was in his mid-20s when he bought his first two-tone Rolls-Royce (light blue on dark blue). At about the same time, he was traveling the world with his favorite model, Jean Shrimpton. Since then, there have been other cars, other trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Style of the '60s | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Brady, of course. never had the flair the dash that Curley had. but Curley never pulled off a one-shot deal of such magnitude as quite a few people feel that Brady might have. Even if one does not have a Curley-like charis?na the alleged the? of $800,000 can qualify one perhaps to sit on Curley's right hand in political heaven...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Crime The Canonization of George Brady | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

Niven's lines are given a martini-dry delivery, and the Belmondo-Bourvil team meshes with the cooperative, competitive flair of Graebner and Ashe. Given those talents, the film might have been considerably more. Still, in a sorry season, The Brain is smart enough to pass for comedy. Th-th-that's all, folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mild Bunch | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

ADAPTATION-NEXT. Two one-acters, both directed with a crisp and zany comic flair Elaine May. Miss May's own play, Adptation, is the game of life staged like a TV contest. Terrence McNally's Next has a middle-aged man undergoing a series of humiliating pre-induction examinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Nov. 14, 1969 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Paris and brushed elbow patches with artists whose works he was to fake in years to come. Life was an amusement that ended abruptly with World War II. Totally apolitical, Elmyr was nevertheless shipped off to a Transylvanian concentration camp. "I was," he says with Magyar flair, "obviously too colorful a person for the safety of the state." He survived the Carpathian winter by painting the commandant's portrait-very slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Objets d'Artifice | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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