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...reach the final by playing its third scoreless tie in six games, and by scoring only five goals and winning only two games in the entire tournament. During the enchanted years of the great Pele, Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself...
...hill or along a flat space with the breeze blowing through my hair. Going up hills like Plympton St., I love that feeling of bulldozer strength as my arms reach back on the wheels and push forward, reach back and push forward. I try and put a little flair in all my turns and grace in as much of my movement as possible. When I'm travelling at speed my hands do a little ballet on the rims of my wheels...I get in a rhythm of moving in the chair, my mind gets involved and I guess its something...
...trouble the satirist without an ideology. "Comic strips are a form of con," she confesses. "All you do is play along with something that works, and suddenly people are asking for your opinions on everything. It's all baloney." Could be, but she does slice it with undeniable flair...
DIED. Lucius DuBignon Clay, 80, uncompromising four-star general who directed the rebuilding of Germany after World War II and masterminded the Berlin airlift; in Chatham, Mass. A West Point graduate with a flair for administration, Clay held a number of military engineering posts before spearheading the U.S.'s entire military supply system during World War II. In 1947 he became military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, where he stabilized the country's economy and helped formulate a constitution guaranteeing democratic elections. Confronted by a Russian siege of Berlin in June 1948, and ordered...
...Rolling Stones, Richie Havens and the Beatles used sitars for an exotic flair. Jazz musicians John McLaughlin and John Coltrane, attracted to Indian music's minor keys and improvisations, extracted aspects of its theory (quarter tones, complicated 17-beat rhythms, a constant drone) into their musical structures. The result is an innovative, unique music style that fuses Eastern and Western cultures...