Word: savoir
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...slum when you can travel to exotic places like Casablanca (40 Brattle St.). While this doesn't have the savoir-faire of a Rick's or the earthy feel of a Blue Parrot it does have a nice patio where cool drinks feel very good on a hot summer night...
...stars, evidently unaware of their tangential relationship to the film, deliver strong performances. Denholm Elliot plays Uncle Elliot, the quintessential Maugham man of society with impeccable charm and studied superficiality. "I spent my life with the great names of Europe," he says with the perfect match of weariness and savoir-faire, "and who comes to visit me." Less successfully, Catherine Hicks portrays Isabel with the pain and confusion one associates with "the drugs and all of that" that are the sum of our knowledge of Isabel...
...paradoxically, Beirut was basking in the radiance of a Mediterranean summer day. As in the city's crises of the past, shops were beginning to reopen. Bread was scarce but, miraculously, fresh flowers were on sale again. As a Western resident remarked, "The Lebanese at least have savoir-faire, if no common sense." The sound of tinkling glass could be heard on many streets as residents cleaned up after the week's havoc. Along the Corniche, as U.S. Marines in battle dress watched impassively, fishermen and swimmers were out early in the brilliant sunshine, demonstrating the extraordinary resilience...
...Kamal's 7-ft. thugs, Bond turned meditative. When he had started playing this game of Save the Planet-when he was roguish Sean Connery and the world was so much younger-Bond had been a kind of role model for people of a certain class and ambition. Savoir-faire meant the aristocracy of style: which wine to decant, which brand of cigarette to smoke, which automatic weapon to carry under the armpit. Now that he was Roger Moore, 20 years later, Bond had degenerated into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism...
...Soviets, should forever lay to rest the assumption that the President is ready to push the button and blow us all to hell! Your picture of Ronald Reagan saluting French Gardes Républicaines captures the President's jaunty style. We have not seen flair and savoir-vivre like his in any of our leaders since John F. Kennedy...