Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...designers. In the '20s, Coco Chanel cut hers from crystal in a severe, geometric shape, setting the standard for power bottles. At the time it spelled freedom and modernity to women, and it is still immediately identifiable. Now companies look for a mixture of old-fashioned quality and contemporary flair. Klein's pristine tube for Escape began in his mind as an appurtenance in an English travel case. Arden headed down to the rhinestone mines. For SpellBound, Lauder added a detachable atomizer, achieving a sort of nostalgic novelty. "Success is like a one-armed bandit," observes Pierre Dinand, a French...
Marylanders have learned to expect the unexpected from Schaefer, a Democrat who is serving his second four-year term. A 69-year-old bachelor with a hot temper and a flair for the flamboyant, he made headlines in February by granting clemency to eight women convicted of murdering men who had abused them. In the notoriously corrupt politics of Maryland, he remains squeaky clean, an unpolished zircon who spends as many nights in the working-class row house he has lived in all his life as he does in the 53-room official mansion that was redecorated by his close...
Thompson, whose grandfather ran unsuccessfully for the state assembly in 1928 and whose father served on the Juneau county board, showed an early flair for politics. In 1966, just out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, he borrowed $600, bought a 1959 Ford and campaigned successfully for a state-assembly seat. He was just 24. Following a failed 1979 congressional bid, he went on to win the governorship in 1986 and was easily re-elected last November...
...British charities, but how active they are varies greatly. Diana's profile has come into focus in the past four-odd years. She favors groups that help the underprivileged and the maimed. In the cutthroat funding competitions of the charity world, her combination of regal presence and natural flair is rare, and golden. To Margaret Jay, director of the National AIDS Trust, Diana's great contribution is in "influencing attitudes. Her speech saying AIDS involved everyone, not just marginal groups, was worth hundreds of millions in ads." Contends Zelda West-Meads of the marriage counseling group RELATE: "She would...
...passing of a founder can be a severe blow to any institution. Yet today, under Jamison, 48, the Ailey troupe has never looked better. Its technique is sharper than it has been in years, and it has lost none of its usual sassy flair. Behind the scenes, Jamison has stabilized the Manhattan-based company's finances by finding it a second home in Baltimore, where it will maintain a residency for five weeks each year. In New York City throughout this month, she will oversee a dance camp for disadvantaged kids that continues Ailey's mission of taking dance...