Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other seniors said that Russell had less flair than her predecessor, Reeves...
According to Judith Rosen, a spokesperson for WordsWorth, the opening of the new store is a way of expanding with flair...
Branson's entrepreneurial flair blossomed early, at 17, when he started a magazine called Student and brashly talked the likes of John le Carre, James Baldwin and Vanessa Redgrave into contributing articles or being interviewed. Student was short lived, largely because the young proprietor spotted, in the number of ads for mail-order records, a demand among young British music lovers for cut-rate disks. Mail order led to the Virgin name (they were young and inexperienced) and a small store, which led to the Virgin record label, which led to more than 100 companies with 11,000 employees...
Winfrey, 42, had a troubled childhood, but her genius was to realize that those troubles--and similar ones experienced by ordinary people all over America--could make for compelling television. Phil Donahue invented the participatory approach to TV talk, but Winfrey brought a woman-to-woman empathy and a flair for self-revelation that he couldn't match. Ted Koppel may have set the media's political agenda, but Winfrey had a direct pipeline to the nation's psyche. She helped bring such topics as child abuse, homosexuality and marital dysfunction out of the closet and into the public forum...
Although Brokaw has moved far from his boyhood home, the town has left indelible traces on his soul. Brokaw's keen judge of character, flair for common sense and no-nonsense attitude originated in Yankton, he says...