Word: flair
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...hockey in Boston,” Stone said. “Four really good schools; that’s what we wanted all along. Believe me, I would much rather play BC in a tight game than blow somebody out and win a championship. It ends up having that flair and mystique of the Men’s Beanpot. So I hope all the Beanpots from here on in are tight one-goal games or go to overtime...
...good novelist makes us look at everyday subjects in new ways, then Jones is an excellent one, and Dreams takes flight, skipping from descriptions of sound waves to Cellophane with bravura flair. But it is the invention of the Lumiere brothers that most delights the author and her characters. Whether transmitted via Greta Garbo's laugh or screen Delilah Hedy Lamarr (who we learn helped patent a frequency-hopping radio-controlled torpedo during WW II), cinema's light becomes the counterpoint to the private sorrows of Mr. Sakamoto and his confidante. The novelist says her love of movies began...
...Flair for Conflict...
...power every single state legislator. When those same politicians balked at his early efforts to balance the $80 billion budget, he put on a golf shirt and a leather jacket and made his populist case in California's open-air shopping malls. There was some of that same Reaganesque flair in his State of the State speech last week, as he invoked the tradition of Californians dreaming big. Now in this election year, his opponents must be worried that if they break the olive branches Schwarzenegger is extending, he won't hesitate to blame them for ruining the state...
...Keller’s shoulder in the closing lift. Surprisingly, the supposedly quieter characters Walker (the Snow Queen) and Richardson (Dewdrop) exhibited palpable and strong stage presence. The performers in “Spanish,” choreographed by Kathryn M. Funderburk ’07, danced with true flair, whipping their black fans and tiered skirts.Katherine L. Penner ’07 was beautiful as the Sugar Plum Fairy. With excellent line and form, her performance of the famous Marius Petipa choreography was truly a pleasure to watch. As usual, the lighting and costumes complemented the mood of each...