Word: flair
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...largely Tory, London-based press, the couple spent long periods campaigning in the provinces, far from London. "The style was vintage Jimmy Carter," noted a Western ambassador in London. Thatcher, by contrast, made the usual one-day campaign forays from the capital. "The Kinnocks were packaged with professionalism and flair," conceded a Conservative politician, "while most of the time we seemed to lack both." Thatcher occasionally stumbled, as when she was asked why she had taken out private medical insurance rather than relying on the National Health Service. She replied, "To enable me to go into hospital...
...taken his place of oblivion as an Oriole coach. Joe Morgan has declined a managing job in -- of all cities -- Houston. Looking at every major-league front office and seeing only Atlanta's Henry Aaron, Morgan figured out the chances of advancement and took his talents and flair to another industry...
Baseball merely discourages the black flair. Football actually legislates against it, restraining end-zone celebrators and individualists of every stripe. At a stadium distance, the shades of baseball and football players might be neutralized slightly. But a basketball player running around in his underwear cannot be pushed back inside a helmet. The game is too intimate, too sweaty, too bearded to be uniform and regulated. By the way, Johnson shot the hook because, at 6 ft. 9 in., he feared his jump shot might be blocked. "I don't take a jump-shot jumper; I take a tiptoe jumper...
...kids," Travis says. "You see a lot of teenagers and even little kids who know the words to the songs." There still may not be an overabundance of youth at a typical country concert, but the music in the Nashville air has a youthful flair that embraces and reconciles the roots rock of Steve Earle, the delicate harmonies of the Judds, the lively lyrical byplay of the O'Kanes...
...nickname Larry's roommates have given him (a nickname Sinai contends "makes no sense and is for the critics to figure out") is actually the collaboration of Guterman and most of his close friends and roommates. In the film, Guterman--who deftly plays himself with a Woody Allen flair--speaks to the audience of his suspicions concerning Sinai's plot to kill...