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...nowhere near as good an engineer as Woz," Jobs freely admits. "He was always the better designer." No one in the neighborhood, however, could match Jobs' entrepreneurial flair and his instincts for the big score. It was Jobs who badgered local electronics suppliers for credit; Jobs who arranged for payment ("They'd say, 'Well, how's 30 days net?' We said, 'Sign us up.' We didn't know what 30 days net was"); Jobs who attracted a first-class industrial p.r. firm and a team of experienced managers; Jobs who organized the early manufacturing; Jobs who finally persuaded Wozniak...
...year's finest work is not so much chic as helpful, with flair...
...verbs "to design" and "to fashion" have always been closely related. But when it conies to the nouns, there is a clear distinction, or ought to be. Design is supposed to combine the practical and economical with a dash of artistic flair so that the result is pleasant, perhaps even a joy, both to use and to behold. Fashion does not have to be practical or, heaven knows, economical. Fashion design is all artistic flair. It is all ephemeral. It is all styling. A dress designer is not primarily concerned with the function of clothing. He tries to wrap...
With his first two books, English Author Bruce Chatwin revealed a flair for the exotic and unexpected. In Patagonia (1978) conducted a guided tour through a remote, forlorn region of South America. The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) took an imaginative leap in time and space back to the flourishing days of the West African slave trade. Given these performances and the critical praise they received, Chatwin's third book (and second novel) seems more surprising still. On the Black Hill has nothing at all to do with wanderlust or faraway places; it is as firmly rooted to one spot...
When Erté settled in Paris in 1912 at the age of 19, he had already developed a taste for the precise detail, blazing colors and stylized but highly idiosyncratic motifs that are characteristic of 16th century Persian miniaturist painting. He also had a flair for attracting the eye of celebrated clients, including Mata Hari, the Dutch dancer executed by the French as a German...