Word: flaired
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance as a gray and bland figure that most worries his colleagues and, increasingly, Vance himself. Although he is effective in head-to-head private negotiations, he is a plodding public speaker and a poor salesman for policies that sorely need selling. Since the President too lacks a flair for inspirational rhetoric or the graceful articulation of American foreign policy concepts, the Administration has not been projecting a coherent foreign policy to the world?or to Americans, either...
...were trying to disguise a one-set, chronologically ordered comedy by Pirandello-ing it up a bit. But afterwards, you can appreciate how these anecdotes should have worked: this is a tribute to Scottie's life, and yet each speaker can only talk of his outrageous practical jokes, his flair for improvising great comic routines in public, or the way he has clowned himself out of lots of jobs...
...innocent to offend anyone. Most of the actors look too frightened or unsure, and although there is a director, you'd never know it from the blocking or pace of the show. As in most junior high productions, whenever someone chances to display a little comic flair or intelligence--even unrefined--the effect is so exhilarating that it goes beyond moments of style in slick, even productions, and you might think that the person in question will do good things someday--in a college production, perhaps...
...Solomon, Benjamin, Simon and William-made much of the world theirs. Building on the medium-size fortune left them by Meyer, a Swiss Jew who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1848, the seven sons stood fast to create the greatest mining empire of their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised the family flag over tin in Bolivia, silver and lead in Mexico...
Right-winger John Cochrane, whose point work on power plays and tenacious flair on penalty-killing duty is anything but conservative, was named Harvard's 81st hockey captain in a vote by the squad's varsity letterwinners...