Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shoes, he seems oddly disengaged from his enormous undertaking. His mind turns to the campaign. "Where are the rest of them?" he asks about rival Democratic candidates. "Here I am, a has- been, all alone." Public argument will help him become better known. What about the lack of political flair? Tsongas is asked. "I have obvious problems," he says. But Tsongas does not invest much concern in the dynamics of leadership. He believes politics is driven by ideas, not style. Nor do the organizational needs of a campaign hold his interest. Tsongas delegates broadly. With a certain satisfaction, he says...
...Lana appeals to a wide variety of people," says Elizabeth A. Graham '91, one of Wong's Eliot House roommates. And she can always be relied upon to provide some visual flair...
...daughter Priyanka, 19, a student at the College of Jesus and Mary in New Delhi, shows flashes of her grandmother's fabled toughness and composure. She has displayed a flair for politics, and her strength during her father's funeral prompted a party worker to say, "Give her time, and she is definitely Prime Minister material...
...enigma. With his horn-rimmed glasses, homburg hats and foppish manners, he looked more like a Cambridge don than an American , spy hunter. Yet the Idaho-born Yale graduate, who joined the Central Intelligence Agency after a wartime stint in the Office of Strategic Services, had a flair for global intrigue and office politics that propelled him into the CIA's upper echelons. During his 20-year tenure as head of counterintelligence at the height of the cold war, Angleton hamstrung the agency with a paranoiac mole hunt that led him to ignore crucial leads provided by KGB defectors...
Livingston could have settled for the ethnographic camp of the ball contests: a gay Pumping Iron, drenched in primping irony. Instead she found eloquent people with a fine sense of their flair and vulnerability. Paris Is Burning is a bijou hit in New York City and will be elsewhere, as audiences realize that the voguers are camera-worthy not because of their flamboyance but because of their home-truth humanity. As one of them says, "You've left a mark on the world if you just get through...