Word: flair
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...poor farmer and an Irish-born mother, arrived in Los Angeles after high school with $80 in his pocket. He enrolled in Southwestern University Law School, working first as a part-time clothing salesman, next as a movie projectionist, but found that his real flair was for speechifying: "I would rather give a speech than
Perfect Buggers. For all his flair and dare, Page has developed into a sensitive photographer who has the respect as well as friendship of almost the entire Saigon press corps. Many of them gathered last May to celebrate his 22nd birthday. He had just been wounded in Danang, but suddenly showed up in Saigon announcing: "All you can do up there is drink vodka Collins. Besides, they're perfect buggers, those Buddhist rebels. It's my birthday, mate; let's order some champagne. I never thought I'd live to see it." Hardly anyone else...
...onetime merchant seaman who built the airline up from a puddle jumper. Six, 58, is a theatrical sort whose three marriages-to a California socialite, Actresses Ethel Merman and Audrey Meadows, his present wife-created a standard gag at Continental: "Bob is batting .500. Three for Six." With a flair for gaudy promotion, he has equipped his golden-tailed jets with golden toilet seats. His public-relations men once hired two dozen dwarfs, dressed them in golden space suits and sent them romping through hotel lobbies in a promotion stunt; another time, the p.r. men tried to "kidnap" a Chicago...
Actually, Raborn had an understanding with Johnson, when he took the job 14 months ago, that he would stay only a year or two; thus his departure was not unexpected. A retired line officer with a flair for administration, he brought to the sprawling spookery in Langley, Va., modern management techniques for analyzing, projecting and distributing the inchoate mass of information that pours in on the agency from every corner of the world...
...Mame, Angela Lansbury has the lavish flair of her costuming. Her singing, dancing and acting are a triple treat. But she lacks that ultimate intangible: star authority-the difference between leasing a stage and owning it. As Mame's actressy pal, Beatrice Arthur is a crafty comedienne, a woman who delivers a line as if someone had put lye in her martinis. And Frankie Michaels as young Patrick has the charm of an acting boy rather than a boy actor. It is good to have the season end not with a bomb but a winner...