Word: flair
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...ballrooms; of AIDS-related heart failure; in New York City. The charismatic, self-described "butch-queen," born William Leake, later taught the martial arts-inspired movements in Europe, worked as a runway model for designers like Jean Paul Gaultier and taught fashionistas like Naomi Campbell how to strut with flair...
...drag ballrooms; of AIDS-related heart failure; in New York City. Born William Leake, the charismatic, self- described "butch queen" taught the martial-arts-inspired movements in Europe, worked as a runway model for designers like Jean Paul Gaultier and taught fashionistas like Naomi Campbell how to strut with flair...
...failings--not just his physical remoteness but also his willingness to placate the country's warlords, his failure to take on government corruption, even his inability to get the traffic lights working in Kabul. The very qualities that catapulted Karzai to power and burnished his celebrity abroad--his flair, openness and old-world gentility--now seem to be exactly the wrong traits for a leader of a developing country at war with itself. "He brought a new face to Afghanistan by being nice to everybody," says Ahmad Nader Nadery, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission...
...also not much of a story line. As a narrative, the official story that the government--echoed by the media--is trying to sell shows an almost embarrassing lack of novelistic flair, whereas the story the conspiracy theorists tell about what happened on Sept. 11 is positively Dan Brownesque in its rich, exciting complexity. Rowe and his collaborator, Dylan Avery, 22, actually started writing Loose Change as a fictional screenplay--"loosely based around us discovering that 9/11 was an inside job," Rowe says--before they became convinced that the evidence of conspiracy was overwhelming. The Administration is certainly playing...
...normally unsung, it is a pleasure to acknowledge the contributions of our art director, Michelle Turcs?nyi, and production manager, Gemma Maloney. It's all very well for our writers and photographers to return from afar with their dazzling jumble of words and pictures. But it is Turcs?nyi's flair and expertise that marry them in coherent, eye-pleasing fashion, while the unflappable Maloney, besieged by creative chaos, ensures that this and every other issue of Time meet not just the highest standards of magazine quality but their many tight deadlines. Michelle and Gemma both perform their roles with great good...