Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andrew Cunanan created his own worlds too. They just didn't work out. For years he had insinuated himself into the lives of well-off, older gay men. An adroit and tireless liar, he told friends in San Diego he was Andrew DeSilva, a man with a factory in Mexico, or wealthy parents in the Philippines, or a wife and daughter--the ones in the photo he would pass around that he got from who knows where. But by last April, when police say he started a cross-country killing spree that climaxed in the fatal shooting of Versace...
...middle-aged politicians too timid for body piercing. Bill Clinton has raised these I'm-so-sorry sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...
...those genes are activated only when they're passed on by the father. This phenomenon, called genetic imprinting, is known to occur in humans. Thus, says Skuse, boys are genetically destined to be inept because they get their X chromosome from Mom. Girls, by contrast, are socially adroit because they get one X from Dad (not that it did him any good, since he got it from...
...staff's reactionary support for the Asian American Association (AAA) is completely gratuitous, for the AAA is completely wrong. The cover of the March 24 issue of the National Review is not a "despicable sort of racial bigotry." Rather, it is an adroit and scathing attack on the questionable behavior of America's three most important public officials...
...skipping 'round my garden, twirling parasols"; "Stick Out Your Chest," an ensemble number with lines like "You gotta pucker your lips,/ Throw out your tush,/ And shake your hips," and choreography to match (imagine a huge egg sticking out its, um, tush); and "I Am Not Adroit at Love," a torch song performed by 2N2N2R6 (Andrew A. Burlinson '97), a maladroit droid who laments, "I wanted his heart but he gave me his mouse...