Word: flair
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...company also lures traveling groups by welcoming them in big, bold letters on the marquee that adorns the towering sign at almost every Holiday Inn; WELCOME CICERO ELKS and similar greetings have become familiar sights. Says Wilson, who has a natural flair for crowd-pleasing showmanship: "People love to see their names on a billboard. Hell, they even come out and take pictures of it." Often the signs carry catchy, outrageously corny messages taken from a company book of sayings...
...number of previously unrecorded Porter songs from some deep, dark vault in the Yale University Archives, to which the Old Blue left many of his papers when he died. This record contributes a great deal to our knowledge of Porter, dredging up songs which reveal a characteristic Porter flair, singing them as Porter himself would have. Short is a performer of great talent, both as a vocalist and as pianist. His two record set may be the finest tribute to Porter's talent yet produced...
Darcy Pullam's Dame Carruthers has a comic flair, and a certain verisimilitude as an old hag. Edith Marshall is a credible nymphet as Phoebe. Danius Turek as Colonel Fairfax, the hero of the piece, performs rather well, and sings beautifully. The scenery, by Randall Darwall, is by far the most original G & S has used in years, centered around a stylized, oversized scaffold which takes most of the action...
...case, until the movie comes along with stars to flesh out the rather meagre characters, this is a well-wrought thriller with more thought and flair than you're likely to find anywhere this side of Serious Literature. And besides, it's one book that certainly won't spoil the movie...
...only the opera had possessed the flair displayed by the stage crew after the opening night performance. While the audience followed instructions to stay in their seats, the curtains opened, platforms rolled, turntables spun, scenery zipped up and vanished heavenward. Then another stage rolled out, bearing an army of aproned waitresses and tables laden with complimentary...