Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pitts' challenge with Ronald Reagan was to bring Hollywood into the aura of Thomas Jefferson without losing individuality. He sculpted the Reagan pompadour to more modest dimensions but kept the slightly unruly wave up front, suggesting a man of flair, but disciplined. George Bush needed less attention than the others, but Pitts found that a slightly rounder cut helped soften Bush's lean face. When Bush lost the l992 election, Milt was chagrined. There had to be some other factor, he reckoned, worrying that Clinton's mod, over-the-ears hair had turned the tide, though Pitts was convinced Clinton...
...must be said that director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Paul Attanasio are great guys to waste time with. As he's proved with Quiz Show, the latter has a real flair for writing strong, confrontational scenes -- brisk, needling, well shaped -- and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain...
...bull moose by heart attack. After trudging along with its opponent for three-fourths of a game on the strength of a pesky defense and decent transition game, the team will suddenly come to an abrupt stop. Its eyes will get big. Its heart will pound. Its nostrils will flair. Its neck will stiffen. And then: thunk...
...Armey's flair for pit-bull partisanship has catapulted him from obscurity to the upper ranks of the new Republican regime on Capitol Hill. Nine years ago, as a freshman Congressman, he was dismissed by the Almanac of American Politics as "hardly likely to be a power in the House." Now he stands ready to assume his job in the next Congress as majority leader and right-hand man to Newt Gingrich, the future Speaker of the House. That might not be the sort of influence one would expect from a man whose pickup truck sports a bumper sticker that...
...music are carrying on the Irish vocal tradition. Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the rock band the Cranberries, the ever feisty Sinead O'Connor and newcomer Katell Keineg (born in Celtic Brittany, she lives in Dublin) have distinct personalities, to be sure, but they all have a flair for emotional and vocal dramatics -- a typical Celtic intensity -- and they all partake of that peculiarly Irish mix of melancholy, anger and romance. Moreover, they all share a feminist perspective, singing songs about women taking control of their lives...