Word: flair
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...good guys and the Capulets the swine: for instance, at the end of the first-act ball, Lord Capulet's decision to spare the gate-crashing Romeo from Tybalt's outrage is scarcely indicated. As Juliet and her Romeo, Patricia Miller and James Canfield both lack spirit and flair, but let the music carry them along...
...title character. The wit in this spoof of the old-fashioned gangster melodrama never rises above that mildly agreeable level and is often below it. But perhaps because the writers outnumber Director Amy Heckerling 4 to 1, Johnny Dangerously offers more verbal felicity than it does visual flair. Heckerling has no feeling, affectionate or malevolent, for the genre she is trying to parody and no sense of comic rhythm either. The result is a thin and clumsy thing, in which talented Michael Keaton leads a cast of good actors in search of the missing beat. Only the redoubtable Maureen Stapleton...
Such flamboyant gestures trouble some of her colleagues. Says Attorney Marvin Mitchelson, no shrinking violet himself: "Her style is a little bit rough on the edges." But others see nothing wrong with her flair for the dramatic. Noting that Allred is careful to keep her theatrics out sides of court, Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of the California Court of Appeal says, "She does her homework; her success rate is good. She is both style and substance. So long as there is not an equal rights amen ment, there will be lots of work for Gloria Allred...
While upsets tend to astound every season, few upstarts in the past have shown the flair of modest Syracuse, which was shut out by both Rutgers and Florida but shut down mammoth Nebraska in between. Also familiar is the critical call missed by the harried field judge, yet how often are apologies telephoned to the slighted coach? Two days after being tied by Texas, Oklahoma's Barry Switzer heard last week from the supervisor of officials that, as a matter of fact, there had been an interception in the end zone on the play prior to the Longhorns...
...friends with a Jewish girls who winds up marrying an Irish playwright. They all go to Paris together for a while, then come back to New York to grow up. Yes, you're read all this before, possibly not written as gracefully but certainly done with a little more flair...