Word: flair
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Branson's entrepreneurial flair blossomed early, at 17, when he started a magazine called Student and brashly talked the likes of John le Carre, James Baldwin and Vanessa Redgrave into contributing articles or being interviewed. Student was short lived, largely because the young proprietor spotted, in the number of ads for mail-order records, a demand among young British music lovers for cut-rate disks. Mail order led to the Virgin name (they were young and inexperienced) and a small store, which led to the Virgin record label, which led to more than 100 companies with 11,000 employees...
Winfrey, 42, had a troubled childhood, but her genius was to realize that those troubles--and similar ones experienced by ordinary people all over America--could make for compelling television. Phil Donahue invented the participatory approach to TV talk, but Winfrey brought a woman-to-woman empathy and a flair for self-revelation that he couldn't match. Ted Koppel may have set the media's political agenda, but Winfrey had a direct pipeline to the nation's psyche. She helped bring such topics as child abuse, homosexuality and marital dysfunction out of the closet and into the public forum...
Although Brokaw has moved far from his boyhood home, the town has left indelible traces on his soul. Brokaw's keen judge of character, flair for common sense and no-nonsense attitude originated in Yankton, he says...
...Naked Eye" opens with cinematic flair in the downtown loft of Alex Del Flavio (Neil Maffin), a Mapplethorpe-esque photographer with a penchant for flowers, crucifixes and dicks. Seems predictable enough--and still does when Nan Bemiss (Pamela Hart) prances in. The Chanel-clad wife of the aforementioned bigot and Senator Pete Bemiss (Jeremy Geidt) has a "teeny" favor to ask of the, at this point, naked artist. The favor, of course, is that he self-censor a few of his more raw shots for the upcoming gala opening sponsored by the Bemisses...
...cellar-like Kronauer Space is well-suited for the play, which alternates between outdoor scenes and the dungeon-like atmosphere of the recovery center. Set designer Kate Khamsi '95 deserves kudos for rendering both the interior and exterior settings with a bleak but psychedelic flair. Inside the recovery center, for instance, the common room is decked out in metal, with a silver duct-taped couch and a plant partially painted silver. These touches do more than conjure up images of Warhol's factory; they remind the audience how robotic pharmacueticals can make people...