Word: flair
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...Huston (Prizzi's Honor). Jackson, who by now could double for his own Tussaud waxwork, is an improbable Han Solo, but he still dances like a jive Astaire and earned audible swoons from teenage girls at the premiere. The film's 3-D effects are familiar but engineered with flair: an asteroid waits to plop in your lap, Fuzzball hovers adorably over your shoulder, and Huston's tentacle talons virtually shred your shirt...
...friendly and intimate as the President and Nancy Reagan welcomed a projected 80 million television viewers into their home. Producer Roger Ailes, a trusted old pro, worked to make sure the camera angles were just right. Ken Khachigian, a former Reagan campaign speechwriter known for his rhetorical flair, collaborated on the address. The details had to be perfect, for the President and his wife were going to speak to America on a subject that has emerged as the nation's hottest topic: the fight against drug abuse...
...remember their grandparents driving. But that is precisely what its creators at GM had hoped. Determined to shed the stodgy image that has caused the company to lose so many upscale U.S. buyers to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar and other imported brands, Cadillac decided it needed a pinch of European flair. So the carmaker teamed up with the Italian design firm Pininfarina to create an entirely new model and help revitalize Cadillac's fallen prestige. Result: a nimble, sexy vehicle that Don Johnson of Miami Vice might be proud to drive...
...years edited the Ladies' Home Journal, Derek Bok was trained as an attorney and came to the Harvard law faculty in 1958, then became dean of the law school in 1968. He still cherishes a lawyerly faith in due process and in reasoned consensus. "Someone with more intellectual flair might leap past process, but it means too much to Bok," says an aide. "He's almost obsessed by a need for fairness...
...Someone with more intellectual flair might leap past process, but it means too much to Bok," the magazine quoted an unnamed "aide" as saying. "He's almost obsessed by a need for fairness...