Word: adroitly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Reagan flew back to Los Angeles Friday for meetings with his advisers on Cabinet appointments, he left a capital suffused with good feeling, how ever transient. By adroit use of pageantry he effectively communicated an important message: he means to begin as a consensus seeker rather than a hard-edged ideologue, a man who will try to win the cooperation of the permanent establishment rather than govern over its opposition...
...avalanche of mismanagement still follows on Carter's heels and could engulf us any moment. But his eight-day display of determination and adroit maneuver has added a lustrous footnote to the pages of his thin volume of leadership success. Nothing more, or less...
...worked. "Painting is stronger than I am," he once remarked. "It makes me do what it wants." Painting had won him the Oedipal battle before his career had begun. If one were told that Science and Charity, Picasso's sickbed scene from 1897, with its rather conventional drawing but adroit paint handling (especially in the details, like the frame of the mirror above the bed), had been done by a 30-year-old Spanish academician, one would have predicted a competent future for the man. Once one realizes that it was painted by a boy not yet 16, the skill...
Both of his space sagas have mythological themes, but, so adroit is Lucas' art, both of them can be enjoyed simply as rousing adventure stories, which they are. "I'm not out to be thought of as an artist," Lucas declares. "It's a big world and everybody doesn't have to be significant. The Empire is as complicated as any movie, and it's saying a lot of things. But I don't like to come out with a big sign and say, 'This is significant.' " He adds...
...black-and-white work, and the quality, on the whole, is exceptionally high. The pictures include close-ups of wheels and grilles, views of roadside landscape, several junks and wrecks, a couple of corpses, and one female nude. The photographers, most of them not widely known, have been adroit in capturing the absurdity and the glamor of the automobile, its allure as an emblem of commercialism, transience and sex, but the show's interest as a sociological record is overwhelmed by the force, wit and elegance of individual pictures. The strongest work is the product of sensibilities inclined towards...