Word: flair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shero and his N.H.L. colleagues say they are not planning any special changes to combat the Russian style of play. They will rely instead on the strengths of home-grown hockey: better body checking and a generous supply of personal flair and determination. The Russians, despite-or because of-their rigid system, apparently envy those qualities. "We are very disappointed that Bobby Orr won't be playing," says one Soviet hockey official, speaking of the Boston Bruins' peerless but injured defenseman. "He is perhaps the greatest player of all time...
...Tchaikovsky can hardly be said to have suffered over the years from underexposure. Yet here are four tone poems that most Tchaikovsky buffs will not know. The Storm is windy stuff at best and deserves its obscurity. But Fatum (Fate) and The Voyevode have an orchestral touch and programmatic flair that approach the popular 1812 Overture and Capriccio Italien. And The Tempest, written four years after Romeo and Juliet, is one of the composer's grandest scores. Conductor Inbal, an Israeli now in his second year as head of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, puts it all into a surging...
WHAT LIFTS this production above the level of mere respectability, however, are the deft performances of Terry and Goldenberg in the main roles. Terry plays Ruth--the dumpy, in tellectual brunette--with zest and comic flair, displaying the versatility of a comedienne in her rendering of numbers like "Ruth's Story Vignettes," in which she portrays the various repressed heroines of her own short stories. Her dramatic contralto invests "A Sure Way"--the still apt lament of the overly intelligent and therefore "unfeminine" woman--with just the right touch of cynicism...
...attraction is the merchandise?thousands upon thousands of items chosen in part for high style and displayed with show business flair. Shoppers swarm about high-fashion boutiques, fondling designs by Anne Klein and Yves Saint Laurent. They taste fruitcake samples in the lavishly stocked Delicacies Shop, which among its 7,000 items has 146 varieties of bread and 300 kinds of cheese. Coos Lee Radziwill, Jackie Onassis' sister: "It's the obvious place to go for everything. Oh gosh, it's the most fantastic and exhausting store in the world...
...this song of India, Authors Collins and Lapierre (Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem) again display their celebrated flair for the epic. Religious confrontations, border wars, political sacrifices are illuminated like scenes in a pageant. The very sounds and odors of a vanished world are resurrected-often at the price of subtlety and perspective. For the birth of a nation is not the stuff of mere melodrama; the historical and human scale is too profound...