Word: flair
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...Norton; 316 pages; $25.95) involves eye-popping quantities of liquor and drugs. Those pursuits leave Noel increasingly at odds with the God-fearing Southerners around him, particularly his stepfather, who looks remarkably like Billy Graham. Mississippi-raised author Lee Durkee portrays his hero's feckless dissolution with considerable comic flair and a sharp eye for regional manners, good and bad. There isn't much profundity on display here, but readers will finish the book feeling they've been treated to quite a ride...
...time world champion runners-up, Shen and Zhao possess an awesome array of technical tricks. They hope to become the first pair of skaters to include a quadruple-throw Salchow in their Olympic routine. But the duo has been consistently marked down for a lack of artistic flair. Judges look for the grace, fluidity and lyricism that the great Russian partners bring to the sport, a prejudice that fans of a more athletic style of skating have long criticized. Now an aggrieved Shen and Zhao have added a new dimension to that complaint: they (and their supporters) feel they...
Valley girls, Lucky Charms leprechauns and the Notorious B.I.G are just a few of the subjects offered up for consideration in Linguistics 80: "Dialects of English," a departmental course for those with a flair for language but with a fear of linguistics technicalities...
...Renown for his flair for publicity and a penchant for jogging suits, Sharpton is now pushing his own program of election reform, whose principal objectives are the adoption of a uniform standard for voting machines, vote-counting and voting roll purges...
...pursuit of her own line, Nicole Vaughn took her design training and experience downtown to East 7th Street. With a storefront reminiscent of a girlfriend's bedroom, Nicole Vaughn offers classics with a modern flair. "Every time you walk in it's a different store," she explains. Her mix of casual, comfortable separates coordinated to suit the ever-changing needs of the creative working woman has a dedicated following. Her clients have been known to come in with sketches, especially for special occasion dresses ($150-$300). Vaughn is passionate about a shopping atmosphere and clothes that flatter all figures, including...