Word: flair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marching below. "Officers call!" barks the adjutant, and eight black-coated officers, swords tight against their shoulders, wheel in close formation across a floodlit field. "Sound attention!" and they come, the main body of six platoons, surging from beneath a darkened arcade. With all the pomp, panoply and flair that can be mustered, the most brilliantly executed military parade in the U.S. is under way. The spectacle is the weekly Friday-night retreat at the Marine barracks of Washington...
...cream. When O'Higgins first saw her in 1950-plowing down Madison Avenue, a crocodile bag in one hand and a brown-paper lunch bag in the other-she was the undisputed queen of the beauty industry; he was travel editor of Fleur Cowles' peekaboo fashion magazine, Flair. Sometime later, after an introduction by mutual friends, he was invited to become her personal secretary. His salary was modest ($7,000), and his functions were vague: for a long time he just sat in her office, witnessing conversations and opening and closing doors. But by the time she died...
...easy enough to quarrel with McBride's resolutely gloomy portrait of the future. But there is no disputing his distinctive cinematic flair or the definitive excellence of his relatively unknown actors-Steven Curry as Glen, Shelley Plimpton as Randa, and Garry Goodrow as the manic magician. McBride, 29, made Glen and Randa on a slender $480,000 budget, without help or hindrance from the major studios. Austerity and autonomy, combined with genuine talent, have produced one of the best and most original American films of the year...
Such a defeat is not likely to happen again. Already Bumpers has shown a flair for dealing with the state's stolid legislature (in the face of which even Faubus sat on his hands during his first term in office). In three short months Bumpers managed to accomplish a reorganization of the governmental bureaucracy, a removal of use-tax exemptions for utilities, an increase in the cigarette and personal income tax, and legislation giving home-rule powers to the cities. He also made inroads into two of the state's thorniest problems, gaining a pay increase of $900 for teachers...
...intricate practice of diplomatic affairs, and were more likely to respond to the uninformed concerns of their voters, to the shoddy tug-and-pull of the popular political process, than to the arduous twists and turns of great power relationships. The bureaucracy, too, was an enemy: no imagination, no flair, no speed or adaptability, little grasp of the sacrifices and risks one must incur if one were to maintain a flexible policy. And as for popular opinion, Kissinger's interest lay not in how the votes would be cast today, but in how the Executive structure would be affected...