Word: flair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That kind of flair and determination came late to him. Clouded by his father's shadow, he was an indifferent student. He admits now that he never tried hard because he feared that failure "would be a traumatic experience...
...naturally gregarious, sometimes rumpled-looking Tunney (he once began a campaign day wearing jacket and pants from different colored suits) has shown flair for publicity. While other politicians walked the beach to demonstrate their concern for offshore pollution, he proved his by diving 175 ft. to the bottom of the Santa Barbara Channel and coming up with a handful of mud and a nosebleed...
...knack for signing up promising unknowns and guiding them to maturity. This season a whole platoon of new young dancers has been turning in pleasurably kinetic and graceful performances. Erika Goodman and Chartel Arthur, both 22, have developed into perky, quicksilver ballerinas with a feathery, light-operatic flair. Alone or with partners, Edward Verso, 28, is a willowy athlete who displays a sure gift for comic characterization and shares many of the company's tougher dramatic roles with a small 20-year-old human dynamo who leaps under the name of Gary Chryst...
...ROOM AT HARVARD. Leafing through the course catalog, I discover four courses which relate to my projected thesis topic. Three are house humanities courses, one is a graduate seminar in Comparative Literature. All have limited enrollment. Exuberantly, marking the margins with my Flair, I consider which of the four I'd prefer to take...
...clan, incidentally, wear porcine masks which, as opposed to the others, I found really funny). Joan E. Thompson, one of the founders of HTC, is excellent as Roberta, whose task it is to win Jack's compliance in a marriage which will complete his emasculation. Jack, played with flair by Bernie Duffy, balks, then gradually weakens as Roberta titillates him with stories about a swimming guinea pig, a drowning baby and a Phoenix-like stallion. The last sequence in which Roberta snares Jack with this chimera of immortal virility is worth to anyone the price of admission...