Word: flair
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...took her to a packed stadium to witness a mammoth, highly scripted display of support for the regime. "He took great personal pride in having choreographed a lot of it," she recalls. Albright concluded that Kim saw himself as a director of a great drama, someone with a flair if not a weakness for the big show. Certainly that is a trait on display now. --With reporting by Kim Yooseung/Seoul and Michael Duffy/Washington
...exasperation quotient--partly built in (a practical joke is also an endurance test) and partly from its being at the tired end of a line of movies about weird or failed show-biz types (Ed Wood, Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman, Bob Crane). But Clooney turns out to have a flair, puckish and audacious, for his new job. Learning from working with Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers and from watching the '70s thrillers of Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View), Clooney figured out how to turn images and performances into menace and sizzle. He's already a real director...
...born entrepreneur, Berman first revealed his flair when he turned the family wholesale-leather business into the nation's largest retailer of leather apparel, now known as Wilsons the Leather Experts Inc. But Berman's true passion is gambling: he has won three national poker titles, and is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame at Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas. At a poker table, Gaming magazine once wrote, Berman plays "with the insight of a psychiatrist and the determination of a club fighter...
DIED. ROONE ARLEDGE, 71, pioneering ABC executive whose technical innovations, show-biz flair and fierce competitive drive changed the face of TV news and sports; of complications from cancer; in New York City. Joining ABC Sports as a producer in 1960 and rising to head of the division, he introduced instant replay and slow motion, infused ABC's Olympics coverage with human drama and journalistic rigor, and made Howard Cosell and Monday Night Football national obsessions. Traditionalists were alarmed when the sports guy was named president of ABC News in 1977. But he made the No. 3 news network...
Yeah John, I thought, your gift lacks a certain idealistic flair. You never decide to further learning and help students while you’re alive. You wait and donate half your wealth and all of your books for their edification only after you’re too dead to enjoy it all yourself...