Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tangible passion, believable battle scenes and all the flair one would hope to find in the retelling of the most famous medieval myth are present in Columbia Pictures's First Knight...
Whatever else might be said about him, Thomas does seem to have a flair for marketing. The trick, he says, is in how you write the pitch lines that describe your pictures. "You want to make the descriptions like a menu," he explains. "If you're selling a dry, tough steak, you want to make it sound as juicy as you can." Among his favorite come-ons (and one of the few suitable for publication): "Peek into the bathroom and see this cutie sitting on the toilet!" A subscriber who chose to download that photo would get a digitized picture...
...Eliot House resident has had a flair for the dramatic all sesson. She tallied seven goals at UNH to ensure her team's 16-10 win and scored the first two goals of Saturday's 17-2 win over Vermont--23 seconds apart...
Everyone moves with flair and does the impossible with seeming effortlessness. The audience is charmed, astounded and amused in turn. However, this type of dance has been done many times before...
...parlance of the trade, for some 20 years, while a succession of KGB chiefs in London were fooled into believing that Larry was actually working for them. Despite his skill as a double agent, Tim's protaga retains a belief in his own innocence, a Byronic flair with women and a hunger for lost causes. "My sin," Tim reflects, "was to promote the cheat in him above the dreamer, which is why he sometimes hated me a little more than I deserved...