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...FRIEND probably came closest to getting handle on this flamboyant fellow when he recalled the character of Fenwick In Barry Levinson's recent film Diner. Fenwick in the handsome and defiant preppy with a mysterious flair, the one who pushes himself to dangerous extreme for a laugh. He tips the car and dances himself with ketchup and trick his friendships, clever as ever in the flamingo-laden living room of a friend, Fenwick quietly answers every College Bowl questions emanating from a grainy TV screen-all-for a lick...
Okada's troubles began in 1972 when, as Mitsukoshi's newly elected president, he developed a taste for high living. Despite his flair for public relations and his reputation as a supersalesman, Okada's autocratic ways angered his colleagues. In Japan, paramount value is placed on a business leader's ability to manage by "consensus," or group agreement on company policies and tactics. But, griped one Tokyo banker close to the company, "Okada became a dictator." Though married, with three children, Okada became a target for Tokyo tabloids, which began publishing breathless accounts of his private...
...Cooper-Hewitt, which is the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, has organized and displayed this exhibition with its usual flair. Scandinavian design, says the museum's sumptuous exhibition catalogue (published in hard cover by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; $45), "scatters flowers before your feet and lays the pale colors and mild beauty of the Nordic summer before your eyes. Less apparent is the truth that this sunny effect is achieved against a background of darkness, cold, ice and snow...
...Vellucci must be the city's commander-in-chief. The 25 year city council veteran and lifelong East Cambridge resident has built a political career by standing up to Harvard and MIT. jabbing at the two institutions with dramatic speeches in the city council chamber, always with a flair for the newsworthy quote...
...surprise to Newsweek 's Moscow Bureau Chief Andrew Nagorski, 35, when he was summoned to the Foreign Ministry press office early last week. Nagorski, a veteran Asia hand, speaks Russian with ease, unlike most of the other 25 U.S. correspondents in the U.S.S.R., and has shown a flair for finding stories that irk the sensibilities of the Kremlin. This month, for instance, Newsweek carried Nagorski's report on the anxieties of draft-age youths in Tajikistan, a republic bordering the Soviet client government of parlous Afghanistan. Earlier he had detailed the fondness of ranking bureaucrats for racy Western...