Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pedicure ($6.50) and the hour-long Touch of Genius manicure ($5,), while perfume spumes from the pool, music from the soft-speakers, and water from an ornate fountain. She can have her lunch brought in while all this is going on. but only women who are particularly adept can eat during a manicure. Director John Bernard prefers his clients not to take the pedicure and the manicure simultaneously, because he fears that it is not very relaxing...
...charge of direct U.S. intervention, Stevenson made only the most technical denial: "No offensive has been launched from Florida or from any other part of the United States." It was a point that Russia's Valerian Zorin, no great brain but adept at probing a sensitive spot, jabbed away at all week long. As it turned out, the point grew increasingly sensitive with the passage of time...
...Adept as he is at sleight-of-hand tales, Aymé is even better at psychological feet-of-clay stories. The title piece, The Proverb, is about a boy who has been brought up to worship his father but also fears and dislikes him. One day the father insists on writing a school essay for his son. The teacher openly ridicules the effort as a piece of rhetorical bombast, gives the boy the lowest mark in the class. On tenterhooks, the proud father asks his son the grade. Tempted to deflate the stuffy old humbug, the boy lies instead...
...stuck to the lush valleys, where the living was easy, and lorded it over the darker, aboriginal inhabitants who are still known in Laos today as Kha (slaves). To the hills came a fierce assortment of immigrants: Black Thai and White Thai, Yao and Youne and Meo. Adept with the poisoned dart, the crossbow and the animal pit, the 80-odd hill tribes dislike the valley-dwelling Lao and number about half the country's 2,000,000 population...
They were never so lucky before, and they certainly were far less adept. But to judge from MacDonald's collection, four centuries have yielded some intelligent and ingenious parodies as well as a lot of tripe. Wordsworth, Browning, and Swinburne, have paid well for their more curious mannerisms of style. J. K. Stephen cautiously and respectfully parodies Browning in a poem of "sincere flattery" that ends...