Word: flair
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...that Kaufman was turning optimistic, only to lose momentum when the story proved to be false. Kaufman believes in personal as well as financial discipline: he has no hobbies and rises regularly at 5:55 a.m. to reach his office by 7:30. But he still has hints of flair, including a taste for mod double-breasted suits, gourmet restaurants and vintage wines...
...people who can make you believe they are in continuous conflict with the physical world--anti-ballerinas, losing the battle to gravity. It's monstrously difficult to pull off, and hardly worth the trouble for all but the most natural clowns. No one in The Three Cuckolds betrays any flair for knockabout comedy, so it's hard to understand why the director. Michael S. E. Kaplan, chose to haul out this tedious commedia del l'arte piece and stage it, of all places, on the Loeb Mainstage, which swallows up all but the most stylistically assured productions...
...growing at a rate of only 1.9% a year, against 3.3% a decade ago. Granted, much of the credit goes to the government, which aggressively pushes free condoms and pills. But some think Mechai, the father of one child, has done at least as much as the bureaucracy. His flair has popularized the program, and his private network of distributors has spread contraceptives deep into remote rural areas...
...Latin America corruption is pandemic from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Bribing in Mexico is handled with the stylized flair of a Latin seduction, beginning with dinner at an expensive restaurant like La Hacienda de los Morales, and climaxing with a weekend jet-jaunt to Punta Cancun or Acapulco. The target of such lavish hospitality is most often the head of purchasing in one of the Mexican government's state ministries, who oversees procurement and importing...
...firebrand himself in his youth, has been overtaken by a new breed of militant British leftists. They are mostly youthful, largely middle-class ideologues who habitually spout Marx, Lenin and Trotsky but shun Soviet-style Communism. Combining pie-in-the-sky visions of a British Utopia with a pragmatic flair for nuts-and-bolts political organizing, they have driven a wedge deep into the 80-year-old Labor Party...