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Other clients followed quickly, and College Marketing's representatives on 700 campuses now push credit cards for Sun Oil, Gulf, Standard of Indiana and Trans World Airlines. The company has done marketing polls for Miles Laboratories, Schlitz and Levi Strauss. For Hamm's beer, Vittert displayed a flair for corny but attention-getting promotion. His firm designed a fraternity-house poster that shows a seminude girl balancing a can of beer on her bottom. The headline: THE MAN'S CAN YEAR ROUND. Last May, College Marketing closed the books on its first year with a profit...
...concerto has the youthful fault of jumbling together too many influences, but reveals Ogdon as an impressively forceful and colorful composer who-like Ogdon the pianist-has a flair for handling big and complicated structures without losing what the pop world would call the big beat. His writing for the piano is flamboyant, excitingly splashy but tamed by good taste. The expertise of his orchestral writing is remarkable-bold blocks of brass sound, piquant wisps of woodwind, supple simplicity in the strings. Perhaps the most important thing about his composition is that he has dared to opt for tradition over...
...Scott is the Chronicle. He embodies the spirit, the flair, and the insanity of this paper. It's like losing a father." Film and Pop Music Critic John Wasserman was only putting into words what staffers of the San Francisco Chronicle described as ''non-hysterical depression" over the departure of Executive Editor Scott Newhall...
Short of the White House itself, the most prestigious Republican entertaining is to be found in the Georgetown garden or leaf-printed dining room of Senator and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper. In her Paris wardrobe and splendid emeralds, Heiress Lorraine Cooper displays an intuitive flair for the metapolitics of power?as practiced in the Senate chamber, or around the dinner table...
...riverrun are on no higher a level of achievement than the plot-in a narrative film, how could they be? Korty's editing and camerawork go in either for slap-happy pastoral or flash-backing exposition. There are only a few instances when writer-director-photographer Korty shows any flair for metaphor. When Sarah reminisces about sitting with her dying mother, the camera pans up the thin tube rising from her mother's arm to the vial of plasma, a sterile white building jutting vertically on the horizon seen through a window. And when Danny chops wood, the sun produces...