Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gines. Europe's decaying aristocracy has produced some exotic late blooms, and in its gaudiest days Vichy has seen the most flamboyant of them. But Count Foucou was something special. He arrived in his bright new British Aston-Martin sports car with a squeal of tires and a flourish of gravel, flanked by a pretty blonde wife and a secretary. He wanted to buy a chateau, he said, and the dazzled real-estate agent showed him the historic Chateau de Theillat. The count took one look, declared he would take it, and with an aristocratic flourish wrote...
Langlie, no flaming orator, had an oratorical flourish or two to rival a Clement. The Democrats, he said, have a heritage of "colossal mismanagement and corruption . . . For 20 years [they] subsisted only from one crisis to another−some real, some imaginary, some fabricated...
...Eugene Harden, the characters in Madame Solaria are lightly sketched; Natalia herself seems at times as insubstantial as the rustle of a petticoat. Yet the author of this period piece has a sure feeling for time and place, and for the rigid standards of behavior that made discreet intrigue flourish. The book treats the difficult theme with a kid-glove restraint that conveys the atmosphere of tension mounting to tragedy...
...gang war, seems to have been made by a sadly inferior second team. Jean Servais is coolly efficient as the criminal mastermind, and Carl Mohner and Robert Manuel play his talented assistants. Director Writer Dassin is on screen, too, as an imported Italian safecracker who brings a Latin flourish to his work. Perhaps Dassin spread himself too thin in the picture, but he gathers enough honors in his memorable silent sequence to satisfy most writers, directors and actors for a lifetime of work...
...longer dance to it-and jazz headed farther out. Rock 'n' roll got its name, as it got some of its lyrics, from Negro popular music, which used "rock" and "roll" as sexy euphemisms. It caught on with the small record companies, e.g., Dot, King, Sun, that flourish in the Southern, Central and Western states, and soon it grew too big for the majors to ignore. Strangely enough, a group of nonmusicians became the objects of teen-age adulation-the rock-'n'-roll disk jockeys such as Manhattan's Alan Freed, Boston's Bill...