Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience in Symphony Hall on Sunday was undoubtedly seeking the "fire and flair" of Gatti's technique promised by the concert program. Like any fire, some smoldering must occur before the flames actually rise. Perhaps it was the amber-suffused ambience of the concert hall, or simply the burden of starting anew in the midst of a frenzied three-week tour that dampened Gatti's artistry in the first piece. Nevertheless, the true focus of the night--the music and its performance by Britain's national orchestra--remained unmistakably passionate...
Surya Bonaly executed her signature backflip with a flair, a one foot landing that host Wylie said no other skater performs...
...tension and coherence The Locusts is beautifully filmed, especially in the scenes where the film goes for a western feel, and Kelley does deliver some striking images. But as in so many debut features, the script attempts to take on too much, sacrificing narrative focus for stylistic flair. What starts out as a younger, less bleak '50s version of After Dark My Sweet quickly turns into a meandering hodgepodge, alternating between generic buddy flick (obligatory scene in which cool guy teaches socially inept guy how to dress and impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong...
...often confuse the words 'lesbian' and 'thespian' so there you are," Pellegrini says, explaining her dramatic flair...
Wintemute also discovered that he had a flair for communicating his findings. An early study, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1987, linked accidental shootings by children to the strong similarity between toy guns and real guns. At a press conference--his first--he displayed side-by-side photographs of real guns and their toy look-alikes. "If you can't tell the difference, how can you expect your kids to tell the difference?" he pointedly asked. The dramatic story and pictures made national news and helped shame manufacturers into taking the toy clones...