Word: flair
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...over what drug-fortified madness put two Italian plumbers in a world of angry, portly mushrooms, the rest of us stopped thinking altogether and rocked the Power Pad. That Power Pad, an ungainly gray spread dotted with red and blue circles (with white shine marks for pseudo-3-D flair) was the portal wherein one could enter into the high-octane dope-pumping wonderland of events like the “110 Meter Hurdles” and “Long Jump.” The key was not the gameplay, which sucked to oblivion, but the ability to interact...
Osama Bin Laden has a flair for dramatic timing. In October 2001, he materialized on TV screens hours after bombs began falling on Afghanistan. Three years later, he surfaced on videotape four days before the U.S. presidential election. It was not quite the Osama October Surprise that some Democrats had imagined--bin Laden doing a perp walk in an orange jumpsuit--but it rattled the U.S. and roiled the campaign just the same...
...Artists went along for the cruise. Painting had flourished in Japan for centuries, displaying a flair for landscapes and portraiture, plus a charming disregard for perspective (until it was introduced from the West in the early 18th century). Now, though, Japan's painters began to focus instead on portraying pleasure seekers. Elaborate, gold-drenched silken screens and scrolls depicted, for the first time, ordinary Japanese amusing themselves in beauty spots like Mount Fuji or inside a stately home. The exhibition's anonymous Entertainment in a Residence (1640-50) shows people making music, drinking, dancing, playing cards and reading letters amid...
...Nothomb and Bernard-Henri Lévy is, of course, their command of French. Rapper MC Solaar makes crafty, creative use of French lyrics. And Publicis ceo Maurice Lévy has assembled the globe's fourth-largest advertising network without diluting the agency's French flair. In all these cases, a willingness to use English hasn't meant selling French short. "Once you demonstrate you can do that too, it gives you more credibility when you want discussion to take place in French," notes Bille. Wise words - but ones certain to provoke cries of "J'accuse...
...signature fitted jackets and soft, fluid pants. One of the biggest changes came from Miuccia Prada, who suddenly abandoned the pretty, eccentric lady she introduced to fashion several seasons ago with a pared-down collection of stiff, narrow miniskirts, shrugged-on polo sweaters and penny loafers. The occasional exotic flair came from an aviary theme, with peacock feathers adorning skirts and appliqués of parrots and swans on shift dresses. And why not take flight? Business is up and designers are bullish. After all the drama over Ford's departure last season, Gucci Group saw earnings before interest...