Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alwaleed's success is partly explained by the blend of Saudi, Lebanese and American influences that have shaped his relatively short career. By his own reckoning, his investment savvy draws on a Bedouin's instinct for caution, a Levantine's flair for a bargain and a bean counter's fondness for the bottom line. "He has an extremely agile mind," says U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Wyche Fowler. "He is always two or three jumps ahead of you." Alwaleed can negotiate in Arabic, English and French...
...Chamber music composed and performed by indie-rockers may seem like an oxymoron, but this group of excellent musicians pull it off with flair. Tickets $12. Brattle Theatre...
...scenes punctuated by lulls and darkness) as in the straightforward action. A party scene late in the film, with the camera roaming through a drunk crowd under soft amber light, and an earlier incident in which Snipes wanders through a wild Manhattan parade, take on the rhythm and expressionistic flair that made Vegas so good. Too bad One Night Stand didn't get more in the way of inspiration from the previous film...
However, on the Harvard men's hockey team, the locker room aggression we might expect from a U.S.-Canadian rivalry has been sedate, like Ric Flair's reaction to the Sharpshooter (the finishing move of Bret "The Hitman" Hart...
Directorial flourishes such as these elevate Eve's Bayou and bolster the story. The film is a collection of indelibly etched images, from the casual falling of a hat to a spider weaving its web. But Lemmons and cinematographer Amy Vincent never allow visual flair to obscure the story. Lemmons uses these tricks sparingly in favor of understated, poetic imagery...