Word: flair
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...satiric bite that infused his Mary Hartman scripts. With lines like "Show business is a rough business, and it is a business," we feel we're watching a 1930s movie musical in technicolor with Bennett trying to do a Busby Berkeley turn. The choreography here however, lacks flair, Henry Krieger's music is a mediocre imitation of the '60s sound, and this extended, boring production reduces the audience to waiting for the girls' next costume change in their $1.5 million wardrobe...
...weeks ago, Granville, who believes that the world is in a bear market that "won't bottom until at least the middle of 1982," took his side show to international markets. And, with his usual dramatic flair, he decreed in advance that last Monday would be "Blue Monday," when stocks would drop sharply around the globe...
...trouble is that these insulters leave no heirs. The best we have-William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Truman Capote -show a flair from time to time, but perhaps because cleverness is so desperately expected of them, often sound as if their hearts are not in it, as if they are merely paying tribute to the old masters. Capote once called Jacqueline Susann "a truck driver in drag." Have we come to this? During Watergate, H.R. Haldeman's lawyer, John J. Wilson, referred to Senator Daniel K. Inouye as "that little Jap." He then defended himself by saying that...
...There is a swaggering style, a macho flair to O'Hare's ace controllers. In near darkness, they hunch over their radarscopes like teen-age boys playing electronic games. Their faces glow in the greenish-yellow light, as each sweep of the radar reveals a constantly changing configuration of planes. They have developed their own special mystique. They chain smoke and drink countless cups of coffee while placating their upset stomachs with chalky Maalox tablets from the big glass candy jars that are standard in every control room...
...actor who goes onstage," explains John Decker of Paines. "He's the one who presses the buttons. If Roly isn't feeling up to snuff, he'll put on a lousy fireworks display. It's a fine art. You have to have an artistic flair for entertaining...