Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loomed for some time over the tenure of executive editor Ben Bradlee. Bold and aggressive, Bradlee instilled a notable sharpness and drive into the paper after becoming executive editor in 1968. Under him, the Post at its best bristled with scoops -- especially during Watergate -- and was written with acerbic flair. It achieved national prominence with searching, provocative coverage that invigorated readers as much as it discomfited the White House and much of official Washington. But in recent years Bradlee, 68, has been easing off his earlier pace, prompting speculation about his retirement and causing open jockeying among his would...
...result is a bold stylistic stroke. The short scenes and pungent dialogue are ideal for catching the rhythm of Winchell's beat, while the residual piece of screenwriter's carpentry ("closing credits come up") underscores not only its artificiality but also Winchell's own purblind flair for self- dramatization. As a literary form, the screenplay generally rates as much respect as restaurant menu prose, and a novel molded like this slips past any easy characterization. "Maybe it's a mongrel," Herr suggests. "Maybe it's just a novel with a camera...
Elsewhere there have been some unlikely victories for old-fashioned activism. Few could have imagined that Toni Luckett, a lesbian and an Afro- American studies major with spiked hair and a flair for quoting Malcolm X, could build a minority coalition and get elected student-body president at the University of Texas. Long a stronghold of white frat men, the university had no experience with firebrands. Luckett is changing all that. Preaching confrontation, Luckett has staged rallies that have put the university on notice that recent racial incidents cannot go unpunished. "The issues have been burning for years," she says...
Barrera is one of the few cast members spared the feel-good disease, and her casting is a blessing. She makes Sheila believably brassy, and zings oneliners at Zach with an enviable flair. Her characterization is flawless. She dances well, and though her vocal tone is flat, she is a dynamic presence...
Ever since George Bush moved into the White House, he has wanted to put his own stamp on the strategic-arms-reduction process that Ronald Reagan presided over with such dramatic flair. Last month the President finally found a way. In a secret letter to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he proposed nothing less than the complete elimination of the most dangerous weapons in U.S. and Soviet arsenals: land-based missiles topped with multiple warheads, or MIRVs. As a first step, Bush suggested, the two superpowers should agree to ban land- based mobile missiles with MIRVs...