Word: adroit
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...Oliver has an analog in the Democratic Party, it is in party chairman Terry McAuliffe. Both are manic, adroit fund raisers, but while McAuliffe loves the limelight, Oliver shuns it. (Oliver declined to speak with TIME.) McAuliffe was the champ of raising soft money; Oliver does it the hard way, collecting prodigious numbers of $1,000--and now $2,000--checks...
...assure adroit handling of burgeoning intelligence reports, FBI officials have set up a new "counter-terror watch" desk, staffed around the clock, to assess and disseminate leads and threats faster and more adroitly to field agents and state and local authorities. Until now, few of these threats have been linked with Saddam Hussein. And since he is a secularist, some feel he may have less support among potential terrorists in the radical Muslim community. "But on the other side of the equation," says a senior counter-terror agent, "you will get a number of people who see the war against...
...Nameless has three main adversaries: Sky (Donnie Yen), a master martial artist he defeats in the film's first, superb battle scene; Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a calligrapher who is as adroit with a brush as with a saber; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish of her own with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal?of the King or the heart...
...Title TK" is an adroit recreation of the Breeders' early '90s sound, although more atmospheric than the other Breeders albums, as well as slower and more and contemplative. At bottom, the chord progressions, simple guitar lines, and laid-back angularity of the arrangements are still there. But something else is missing, and it's the energy a band tends to give off when it's functioning like a band as opposed to recording artists with back-up musicians. Call it bandness...
...overbearing, white-wearing, all-controlling mother (Selena Tan) as an allegory for Singapore's famous Nanny State. Just as Terry's mother wants to run her kids' lives, Neo says, the Singaporean government has been slow to let its own children grow up. The buzz that Neo's adroit criticism has produced shows that it may be time for the government to give the kids the keys...