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...positively miraculous how little has changed since 1916. Then, as later, the action begins with the arrival of Captain Hastings, easily the most blockheaded tribute ever paid to Dr. Watson. His virtues are decency and loyalty to England and Poirot, but as the latter notes, he has a flair for the obvious and "a speaking countenance...
...Finley's ideas are not brash enough, he peddles them with a pitchman's flair. When he wanted to press for adoption of the orange ball at one league meeting, he showed up wearing a traffic cop's phosphorescent orange glove. Every time he wanted to talk, he waved the glowing glove over his head...
OTELO SARAIVA DE CARVALHO, Security Chief, is the closest thing the Portuguese revolution has to a genuine popular hero. Theatrical and flamboyant, he is described by one observer as an "ebullient, mischievous man with a flair for outrageous statements," and by another as "the only one [in the troika] who's got balls." Saraiva de Carvalho is popularly known by his first name -or, as adoring crowds chant it, "O-tell-u." His power base is COPCON, the 70,000-member military force that after the revolution assumed responsibility for public peace from the discredited Caetano police. His command...
...King's greatest asset is a flair for thinking-and acting-big. With Ali demanding prize money beyond the means of individuals or even corporations, King has made his deals with governments. Shrewd enough to realize that championship bouts featuring Ali are the kind of promotion that developing nations like to stage, King has courted heads of state in Cairo, Tehran, Lusaka (Zambia), Manila and Kuala Lumpur. "The jet lag is so bad," he says, "I eat breakfast 24 hours...
...focus of attention was Tony Conigliaro, who returned to baseball after a three-year absence. Tony c., the Sax designated hitter, exhibiting the sarne flair for the dramatie he has exhibited throughout his career, punched a clean line drive single on his first time at bat in three years to the thunderous approval of the Fenway crowed Conigliaro didn't fare as well in his other times at bat, grounding our three times...