Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this campus is that you have to choose one thing to commit yourself to," says council member Hassen A. Sayeed '96. "But Carey has this astonishing ability to do billions of things here and not be insane, while maintaining commitments to them all, and doing everything with extraordinary flair," Sayeed adds...
Izzy strikes me as the Duane Ward of this All-Star pairing: fundamentally sound, gets the job done, no flair to him. When he gets beat it's because his stuff isn't as good as the other guy, not because he ever beats himself...
...hockey captain has taken his flair for the dramatic to the National Hockey League, erupting with two big goals for Calgary in the Flames' 3-2 overtime win over the Washington Capitals Monday night at the Olympic Saddledome in Calgary...
...divided into Romanticists and Classicists. The playing style of the Romanticists is characterized by emotion and imagination and an emphasis on individuality; the play of Classicists is more controlled, more cerebral, more reliant on teamwork. Earl Monroe was a Romanticist; Oscar Robertson a Classicist. Magic Johnson, for all his flair, was a Classicist who controlled the tempo of the game; Julius ("Dr. J") Erving was a Romanticist who played according to his own rhythms. Although he has all the skills and talents of a Classicist, Jordan is a Romanticist. He is a splendid passer and defender, but those skills...
Gardini's upbringing led him to agricultural college; afterward he joined the firm of Ravenna grain dealer Serafino Ferruzzi. His charm, ambition and business flair brought him rapid promotion -- as well as marriage in 1957 to the boss's eldest daughter, Idina, which guaranteed that he would inherit company leadership from Ferruzzi, who died...