Word: flair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, Kid (Christopher Reid) is grounded because of his bad report card. What's Kid to do? Sneak out, of course. Writer-director Reggie Hudlin gives zip and lots of laughs to this sharp, hip-hop comedy that blends a John Hughes-like ear for dialogue with the visual flair of Spike...
Assertive as ever in an interview with The Crimson yesterday, Koch has lost none of his flair for wisecracks in recent weeks, and claims he has lost none of his popularity. The only thingthe three-term mayor will admit to having lost is23 pounds--courtesy of a diet plan which he nowendorses on television...
...maybe have more"--Koch searches for aword--"flair at getting attention paid to mycomments...
Many maintain that it was this flair--ofteninterpreted by critics as the result of a massiveego--that accounted for Koch's popularitythroughout much of his 12-year tenure of mayor.But Koch still argues that he did an excellent jobas mayor, better, in fact, than he expects currentMayor David N. Dinkins...
Sound simple? It isn't. Sensitivity to color subtleties and a sophisticated flair for mixing them are fairly rare even among the French-couture royalty. Knowing how to conjure a rainbow on a commercial budget is an invaluable skill. Henderson puts an environmental spin on his aesthetic sense, and while he is a leader, he is not alone in this. Ever the magpie, fashion has caught on to ecology. "Le look vegetal" is popular in Paris, where earth colors and materials like fake hemp and mock plant stems are making news. In Henderson's case, the affinity to natural colors...