Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters directed by Elaine May with a crisp and zany comic flair. Adaptation, written by Miss May, is the game of life staged like a TV contest with the contestants hopping from one huge checkerboard square to another. Gabriel Dell, in a performance that is laugh-and letter-perfect, is the hero who plays the adaptation game from birth to death. Terrence McNally's Next features James Coco, fortyish, fat and balding, as a potential draftee called up for his physical examination. Coco gives an enormously funny and resourceful performance in McNally...
...undisciplined by the staunch conservatives of the Labor Party machine. A pragmatist who operates largely on intuition, Dayan as Premier would make his own decisions as head of a Cabinet of technocrats. By contrast, Allon would likely lead a Cabinet of political leaders. Though he lacks Dayan's flair, Allon is a supreme organization man and meticulous planner. As Premier, he would also make one major innovation in Israel's decision-making machinery: a National Security Council, following the U.S. model...
...styles could hardly be more dissimilar. Moynihan, 41, is a big (6 ft. 5 in.), boisterous Irishman who pads around his basement office in stocking feet like a kind of White House Superelf. Quite apart from what one Nixon aide calls "Moynihan's flair," however, the President and Moynihan have each developed a strong respect for the other's ideas. It was Moynihan's idea, for example, for Nixon to tour the Washington ghettos a few weeks ago. "The important thing," he says, "is that the President was out among the people again...
Even before the museum closed for its renovation, Elliott had displayed a showman's flair for lively, avant-garde exhibitions. In the museum's auditorium, courageous Hartford patrons have been exposed to the underground films of Bruce Conner, the dances of Merce Cunningham, the electronic music of Karl-heinz Stockhausen. But Elliott does not think of himself as primarily an exhibitionist. "I think there are too many special exhibitions going on," says Elliott with a trace of exasperation. "You exhaust your public with temporary shows and they never get upstairs to see your permanent collections...
...Buckridge without a job and without the identity she has built since the start of the serial six years ago. Off-screen she has a tendency to get drunk, still spouting the platitudes of Sister George--along with her own opinions. Beryl Reid plays her scenes with a witty flair that none of the other characters ever approaches...