Word: flair
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Punch-Drunk Love, the latest movie from master filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, is a fresh, subdued playlet of a comedy from a director famed for grand melodramatic spectacle. It has the same brand of cinematic flair that nourished Anderson’s modern classics Boogie Nights and Magnolia, but it’s a matured sort of flair; it’s quieter, more sparingly used. What Anderson has created with Punch-Drunk Love is not his best work, but it’s certainly his artiest—formally brilliant, deliberately paced and rife with transcendent moments...
...hearts of hundreds of thousands of people and builds bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West is, after all, better than an academized Rumi who speaks to no one?and even those who quibble most about Barks' translations tend to admit that he has an undeniable flair for capturing the spirit of the poet's thought...
...Gilbert and Sullivan, ridiculous situations ensue. Plus, with the immensely talented team-up of Naomi Straus ’04 and Abigail Joseph ’04 designing the wacky, colorful costumes, expect The Mikado to rock the Agassiz Theater this Dec. 5-14 with some G&S-style flair...
...garage-rock movement continues to slather its greasy mixture of hipster apathy and commercial aspiration all over mainstream radio and magazine covers, another movement is bubbling just below a neon Spandex surface. It has finally arrived, with refreshing intelligence and flair, in the form of OK Go. The Chicago-based group’s eponymous disc meshes its tweaked guitars with rebel yells, resulting in one of the year’s best debuts...
...team's own fans who chant, "Boring, boring Arsenal," with irony. The side is in severe danger of being responsible for playing the most skillful and colorful football in England's Premier League. Under manager Arsène Wenger, Arsenal has become a team combining technique, speed and flair that not only plays dazzling football but wins too. Having won the League Championship and Football Association Cup last season, they are now on a run of 27 unbeaten league games. Frenchman Wenger has an enviable ability to spot talent, get it cheaply and nurture it. His buys of French players...