Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when she referred to "the legible, proud, upright standing 'I' of April, crowned by a huge accent-like-dot, which looks like a huge wild bird, flying over the i, not yet sure of landing directly on the vowel i." Bernard started out life as an actress, and her flair for the dramatic still showed...
Some students might challenge the dean by staging another sit-in to call his bluff. After all, it was CCR protester Keith Boykin who declared with Schwarzeneggerian flair, "We shall be back." If so, Dean Clark, I humbly offer my three-point plan to deal with campus malcontents in your office...
From the beginning, the Opportunes demonstrated the comic flair that differentiates them from other campus singing groups. A barrage of jokes about the Gulf War, the plight of the Kurds and President Bush's "New World Order" jolted the audience into full attention...
...movement -- she embodied it, propagated it, imposed a clear discipline and aesthetic on a new, inchoate art. By the 1950s she was the biggest dance celebrity in the country. She could inflame almost any audience, and she was a genius at dealing with donors and the press. Her personal flair -- her Easter Island mask of a face, her extravagantly theatrical wardrobe -- made her slightest gestures, onstage or off, indelible...
Pity the Hollywood suits who will have to choose which of this winter's murder cases would make the best movie of the week. Even tabloid writers with a flair for melodrama are hard pressed to do justice to the true stories that have unfolded in New Hampshire, Texas and Florida -- and who knows how many other plots are marinating, still undiscovered, in the shadows of the heartland? A brief gazetteer...