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...that Macapagal himself was involved in anything shady, but Marcos' message apparently made a telling impression on the Philippine electorate. Then too, Filipinos prefer new faces in politics, have never elected a President to two full terms in the islands' 19 years of independence. But Marcos' flair as a campaigner may well have caused the landslide. Brimming with vigor, he stumped through virtually every barrio in the archipelago and delighted thousands of voters by warbling duets with his beauteous wife Imelda, the Miss Manila...
...Alpert, 28, is an ex-Army trumpeter who has played taps for as many as 18 military funerals a day. Experimenting with a tape recorder in his garage one day, Alpert found that by overdubbing one trumpet solo on top of another, he could produce an intriguing "Spanish flair." The effect proved most rewarding in Twinkle Star, a song written by a friend...
Juliet of the Spirits. Italy's Federico Fellini is the Barnum of the avantgarde. In his apocalyptic La Dolce Vita, as in the wildly self-centered 8$, his flair for baroque theatrical effects seemed to be a secondary characteristic of genius, the manner but not the meat of it. In Juliet, his first full-length movie in color, effect is everything. Fellini puts on a psychic three-ring circus that promises profundity and delivers only a stunningly decadent freak show...
Claiborne's flair for entertaining also led him to write a regular feature on the country's outstanding hosts and hostesses. It is already so widely read that one woman begged to be included because "to be on the Times's food page is the newest status symbol in New York." She didn't make...
...chronicle of carnival is a commonplace of fashionable fiction, but this attempt is anything but commonplace. Author Cole, a 32-year-old lecturer in the humanities at M.I.T., has wit, charm, timing, a flair with atmosphere, a felicity of verbal gesture, a feeling for character so insidious it persuades the reader that every person of the drama is really just an unlived aspect of his own self. An End to Chivalry is a beginning of brilliance...