Word: flair
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...want to know what’s going to happen to Hideki Matsui once he arrives in America. I want Yao Ming to break the Asian barrier in the NBA with flair. I want the Twins to stay alive, Roy Oswalt to win the Cy Young and the abolition of the designated hitter. I want a return to finesse over show in basketball, to fundamentals over power in baseball, to consistency over flash in football...
...Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, John Stockton and David Robinson continue to share the spotlight with now veteran All-Stars Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan. It reminds me of the WWF (I refuse to ‘get the F out’), where Hulk Hogan and Rick Flair stick around to “nurture” the next generation of wrestling superstars until fans respect the new guys...
Back home, Owen is using her new, improved culinary flair to treat her employees. In between her accounting and managerial duties, she regularly cooks meals for the eight people in her company in a fully equipped kitchen in the office. "When I get to work, everyone asks me what's for lunch," says Owen. "Even if they hate the job, they love the food." (A sample menu: fillet of salmon with soy sauce, rice-wine vinegar and lemongrass, baked in parchment paper and served with rice pilaf...
DIED. MIA SLAVENSKA, 86, prima ballerina of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; in Los Angeles. The classically trained, red-haired virtuoso was celebrated for her range, beauty and theatrical flair in such works as Giselle, Coppelia and a dance adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire...
...falls for Lena, Barry’s energy grows to serve a normal, workable emotion; his outbursts are no longer meaningless cries into a void, but rather are to some self-improving purpose. And, as Barry uses his emotional problems to become a happier human being, Sandler channels his flair for comic instability and rage in such a way that it makes him a more effective and believable dramatic actor; when an evolving Barry, looking for Lena, lets loose at his sister midway through the film, the lack of artifice in Sandler’s performance is remarkable to behold...