Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone missed Seattle play this year (and it looks like the M's will not be in the postseason), do not make the same mistake next year. Ken Griffey, Jr. and Alex Rodriguez have the talent and flair that has been missing from the game for a long while...
...long string of guitar heroes, a list that would begin with Chuck Berry, continue on through Hendrix, Page and Eric Clapton, and include players of more recent vintage, like Eddie Van Halen and Living Colour's Vernon Reid--musicians celebrated for their sheer instrumental talent, their jazzman-like flair for expansive, showy (and sometimes self-indulgent) solos. But with the advent of alternative rock and grunge in the late '80s and early '90s, guitar heroism became uncool. Peter Buck of the influential rock band R.E.M. shies away from the exhibitionism of flashy solos; other alternative rockers, including the late singer...
...future is not just coming, she is rushing the net. Martina Hingis danced across the courts at the U.S. Open in Queens, New York, the past two weeks, displaying an amazing variety of shots, a real flair for the gamble, an occasional peevishness and a smile as winning as her cross-court forehand. The fact that she is 15 is both sublime and ridiculous. Her surprise victim in the quarterfinals, Jana Novotna, remarked, "She has a very light game." Pressed to elaborate, Novotna said, "You saw it. Light. Effortless...
...shop. Hilfiger led with his chin, with ads in which he compared himself to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The industry laughed--here was a tyro pushing rip-off designs and affecting to be an immortal. But Hilfiger was dogged. He came to recognize the flair in black street style, recombined it with his preppie instinct and found a niche in fashion no one can laugh...
...breakthrough came in 1992, when Hilfiger's clothes first caught on in a big way with black teenagers. Unlike other designers whose clothes have become inner-city status symbols, Hilfiger reached out to the market, adding urban flair--oversize logos, swagger style--to what had been a fairly conservative line. Says Russell Simmons, the savvy founder of Def Jam Records: "Tommy's clothing represents the American Dream to black kids. They're not interested in buying holey jeans; they want high-quality merchandise." They also like bulk. While the rest of fashion is pushing a lean look, Hilfiger shows baggy...