Word: flaired
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right portions of grave surprise and spiritual disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from Sunday Funnies, the program's third installment, a meat-cleaver satire about prom night in the '50s that had all the wit and technical finesse...
Richard seems on the verge of becoming a whole character, but Updike never brings us beneath the surface. We see Richard acting out his resentments and passions, which he does with great theatrical flair, but his motivations remain cloudy, unpenetrated, and we're left feeling sorry for him without understanding why we should...
Even though University Police Chief David Gorski said that Hammer's flair made it more difficult to safeguard the painting, Gorski acknowledge yesterday that the affair was all Hammer's, and he wasn't about to quarrel with a gift horse
With his customary flair for the political spectacular, Philippine-President Ferdinand Marcos last week organized a remarkable lineup of prisoners at Fort Aguinaldo, an army base outside Manila. There stood 25 ranking members of the Philippine Communist Party and its military wing, the New People's Army (N.P.A.), including nine of the party's 14-member Central Committee. Almost all of the prisoners had been taken into custody since January. Their collective appearance at Fort Aguinaldo was an awesome display of progress in Marcos' effort to end the Communist guerrilla movement that has survived, despite great difficulties...
...second half of the program, a performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C, "The Great," showed similar flair and ability, although it suffered a bit from lack of rehearsal time. This was particularly evident in the coda of the Andante, which lost touch with both balance and dynamics. However, the memorable trombone sound more than made up for any failings, and completely justified Schubert's revolutionary use of brass to present thematic material...