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...daughter Priyanka, 19, a student at the College of Jesus and Mary in New Delhi, shows flashes of her grandmother's fabled toughness and composure. She has displayed a flair for politics, and her strength during her father's funeral prompted a party worker to say, "Give her time, and she is definitely Prime Minister material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Generation | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...enigma. With his horn-rimmed glasses, homburg hats and foppish manners, he looked more like a Cambridge don than an American , spy hunter. Yet the Idaho-born Yale graduate, who joined the Central Intelligence Agency after a wartime stint in the Office of Strategic Services, had a flair for global intrigue and office politics that propelled him into the CIA's upper echelons. During his 20-year tenure as head of counterintelligence at the height of the cold war, Angleton hamstrung the agency with a paranoiac mole hunt that led him to ignore crucial leads provided by KGB defectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalking The Red Intruders | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

Livingston could have settled for the ethnographic camp of the ball contests: a gay Pumping Iron, drenched in primping irony. Instead she found eloquent people with a fine sense of their flair and vulnerability. Paris Is Burning is a bijou hit in New York City and will be elsewhere, as audiences realize that the voguers are camera-worthy not because of their flamboyance but because of their home-truth humanity. As one of them says, "You've left a mark on the world if you just get through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Happy Birthday for The Kids of Kane | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...when she referred to "the legible, proud, upright standing 'I' of April, crowned by a huge accent-like-dot, which looks like a huge wild bird, flying over the i, not yet sure of landing directly on the vowel i." Bernard started out life as an actress, and her flair for the dramatic still showed...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: The Content of His Character | 5/10/1991 | See Source »

Some students might challenge the dean by staging another sit-in to call his bluff. After all, it was CCR protester Keith Boykin who declared with Schwarzeneggerian flair, "We shall be back." If so, Dean Clark, I humbly offer my three-point plan to deal with campus malcontents in your office...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Why I Like Dean Clark | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

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