Word: flair
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...absurd situations are matched by dialogue that beauty (hers) and talent (his) cannot vanquish. Liz flaunts her attachment to another wastrel whom she knew "in the Biblical sense-he had carnal knowledge of me." Though Burton's performance consists mostly of curtain speeches, he handles his lines with flair, particularly when he drags himself away from Liz's shack into the clean, cool air to intone sonorously: "Oh God, allow me some small remembrance of honor." The drabber phrases fall to Eva Marie Saint as the wife, whose patience and succor are apt to take such forms...
...discover (gasp of Recognition) that the play is really about the younger generation and growing up and accepting responsibility. Tom and Teena, we find, live unmarriedly in midtown Manhattan in a messy apartment displaying anti-bourgeois scorn for neatly preserved possessions (their sofa is an automobile seat) and a flair for camp (wall cartoons of a trotting Flash Gordon and of Batman holding a tiger and wheezing "Whew!"). They talk like suburban eighth graders about Camus and psychoanalysis and how their generation doesn't know itself but can't accept the values of the past and how free of prejudice...
...field, a flair for personal publicity helps. Iowa Lawyer Jack Schroeder, 39, made headlines through politics-he is a longtime Republican state legislator-and he is sure that the exposure aided in launching his General Life of Iowa Insurance Co., whose assets are now more than $8,000,000. Most millionaires have a compulsion to be in business for themselves, but some employees in the corporate world have taken the optional road to riches. At Idaho's Boise Cascade Corp., Vice President William Eberle, 41, has piled up $2,300,000 worth of stock through options, and the chief...
...principles of mathematics? "You can't explain it. You understand it by an internal, mathematical reasoning, ou've got it or you haven't." What distinguishes the identical Neo-Spanish languages from each other? "It's an ineffable something... No rule can be given. You must have a flair for it, that's all." How, finally, does it happen that ordinary people are able to communicate at all, since each speaks his own language? "It's simply one of the inexplicable peculiarities of the coarse empiricism of the masses...a paradox, a nonsense, one of the aberrations of human nature...
...soon, the sham preacher helps a cattle rustler escape from jail. Persuaded to hide the hot-blooded crook in her Pullman berth, Catherine (Jane Fonda) begins to reveal a flair for lawlessness and disorder that turns out to be her most endearing trait. After she blows into Wolf City at gale force, her father is murdered for his land by a hired gunfighter (Lee Marvin). Catherine becomes "Cat," an outlaw queen who scourges the countryside assisted by the amorous rustler, his prayerful accomplice, a Beatle-thatched Indian, and a drunken, generally unemployable gunfighter she can call her own (Lee Marvin...