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Most of these bite-size chunks of Cosbyana are little more than stand-up material set down on paper, without the flair that Cosby brings to them in live performance. (His unbilled collaborator on both books was Humor Writer Ralph Schoenstein.) But the quips are frequently funny, and pure Cosby. Noting that underwear keeps getting tighter as one grows older, he observes, "It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life...
...Sandinistas may yet make a mess of things, a talent for which they have demonstrated a remarkable flair. Just four days after a 1985 congressional vote against aid to the contras, for example, Ortega visited Moscow. His trip was deftly exploited by aid proponents two months later to obtain $27 million in humanitarian funds. Ortega seemed poised on the verge of self-destruction again last week as he coolly announced that on Nov. 7, the day the cease-fire is scheduled to begin, he will be in Moscow celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Russian Revolution...
Dave Kingman and Greg Luzinski seemed larger than life in their time. But if they were in their prime now, they'd be receiving about all the attention that Steve Balboni merits. Given this context, the temptation to add some flair to a home run--to garner some additional attention--is great...
...this day it is difficult to pin down just which operations North became involved in. One reason is North's irrepressible flair for self-dramatization. In the days before he began taking the Fifth Amendment, he told innumerable stories about daring exploits that either were embellished or seem never to have happened. Another reason is that he operated far out of sight of much of the official Government. He claimed to have done much of the planning for the invasion of Grenada. But Jeane Kirkpatrick, then Ambassador to the United Nations, who attended the meeting at which that invasion...
Although Pivot adroitly keeps the spotlight on his authors, he has his own flair as well. At the end of a show devoted to French collaboration with the Germans during World War II, Pivot suddenly pulled out a piece of paper and ( began to read. It was a letter from Albert Camus to fellow Novelist Marcel Ayme explaining why, despite a colleague's treasonous embrace of fascism, Camus was willing to plead for the condemned man's life. The unpublished letter had been sent to Pivot by a friend researching a Camus biography. As his guests sat in silence, awed...