Word: flair
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Fast forward to the 2000 season: Stewart is still showing a remarkable flair for the dramatic, and the Crimson is counting on her to help it surpass last season's success...
...makes you think that Oscar night might be better contracted out to Sydney-siders. Well, OK, there were a couple of sappy moments: the music sounded like retreaded ABBA, and the Olympic Hymn, sung in Greek, is a bore. But for the most part the whole event showed great flair and - most critically - a fine sense of humor. Given the opportunity to tell its national story to 3.7 billion television viewers around the world, few nations would include a segment celebrating the postwar suburban boom featuring funny-looking guys and gals in flowered shirts pushing lawn mowers. Or a whole...
...start of the Crimson's season is any indication--with the tempered play of the veterans punctuated by the flair of the freshmen--then Harvard can look forward to ending this chapter of its history with a happy ending...
...that people's mental states are the product of both genetic and environmental influences; nature and nurture co-choreograph our intellectual steps and missteps. Still, it often seems superficial and reductionist to explain complex mental machinations with a chromosome number and base substitution. How can we possibly acknowledge the flair of the human thought process by merely pinpointing a genetic locus...
Rosenblatt put on an epic case--one that stretched out for two full years, with testimony from 157 witnesses. A skilled trial lawyer with a flair for the dramatic, he pulled at jurors' heartstrings by putting his ailing clients front and center. Mary Farnan, a nurse with lung and brain cancer, began smoking at age 11 and was unable to quit even during early rounds of chemotherapy. Frank Amodeo, a 60-year-old Orlando clockmaker with throat cancer, is unable to swallow food. Rosenblatt had hoped to put Angie Della Vecchia on the stand during the damages phase. She died...