Word: flair
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...appearance of a refugee from “The Oresteia” at the end is a delightful non-sequitur that gets laughs for its sheer randomness, as does the argument that breaks out over who is the main character. In fact, Wan portrays Wanda with a similar flair, acting in an affected way that bears very little relation to any sort of reality, but is over-the-top enough to steal any scene she?...
...latest round of squabbling comes a year after Barbie's mother ship sued the creator of Bratz for working for MGA while still employed by Mattel and four years after the teenage bad-girl Bratz started strutting down the aisle with their oversize heads, bare bellies and hip-hop flair. A spokesman for MGA would not comment on pending litigation, but a Mattel rep was willing to take a swipe: "Apparently MGA has become concerned enough that it feels compelled to make an offensive strike...
...debut for Shevardnadze. The silver-haired, outgoing former Communist Party boss from the southern republic of Georgia had few evident credentials for the Foreign Minister's job beyond close ties with Gorbachev. Shevardnadze's expertise lies in public administration, where he made his mark with boldness, incorruptibility and a flair for public relations during a 20-year career in Georgia as minister of public order and eventually party secretary...
DIED. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 62, President of Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices...
...passing to their peers—and it is not—we are sure Lithgow will be a fine speaker. While speeches full of pleasantries and generalizations from well-known politicians may be the only thing that can excite some students and parents, we expect the special flair that Lithgow, a professional actor, will bring to his speech will more than make up for it. This year’s Afternoon Exercises may be an event remembered for the wisdom of its words, and the forcefulness of their presentation, not just the “significance?...