Word: flair
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This investigative biography also takes a little of the shine off DeLorean's career at General Motors. Despite his genuine flair for engineering, says the author, DeLorean appropriated other people's achievements for his own. No one who knows will say whether DeLorean quit or was fired in 1973. He had clearly infuriated the GM brass with his high-profile Hollywood lifestyle and outside business interests. But when DeLorean left, he did not do badly. Levin reports that his parting golden handshake with GM included a valuable Cadillac franchise and a year's extension...
...crown that opens the way to the Miss World contest this November in London. A crowd of 4,000 watched their comely comrades parade across the stage in regional costumes, evening gowns and finally, in an inescapable concession to bourgeois tradition, bikinis. Miss Polonia 1983 already has a flair for the banalities of beauty-queen lingo. "It's wonderful," said Wasiak. "My life will certainly change, but I wouldn't like it to change too much...
...four varieties of tops and eight bottoms have a distinctively athletic flair. They are made of 100% knit cotton, come in 24 colors, and are modestly priced from $6 to $12. The ribbed tank tops and T shirts are available in shades that would please the Dallas Cowboys: athletic gray and olive drab. Although the bikini briefs are cut femininely high on the thigh, they sport a white elastic waistband emblazoned with the designer's name, just like men's models. And the string bikini, even in deep hues of jade or saffron, bears an uncanny resemblance...
...wears off with use. It begins as an arbitrary gimmick, meant to convey Baselitz's sense of the world's insecurity; it ends as a reassuring convention, directing one's gaze to the abstract qualities of the painting. Certainly, no one could say Baselitz lacks pictorial flair. When he is in full cry, slathering the surface with that thick and turbid pigment, now layered in grit and now applied with a kind of skidding creaminess, he achieves a fluency of rhetoric that does much to animate the more standardized conventions of his work. His sculpture is another...
...shibusa (the adjective is shibui), an untranslatable part of the Japanese mystique, gives Japanese designers an edge over their U.S., Italian and Scandinavian colleagues. It means not just beauty, but the beauty of calm understatement; not just perfection, but perfection emphasized by some slight flaw. It means both flair and simplicity. Yasumo Kuroko, Sony's chief product designer, offers a definition: "It's the just so of the swerve of a pagoda or the sword of a samurai...