Word: cleverisms
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...placing the impetus of the attack on the Bears’ visibly tired back line.Encouraged by dazzling play from young midfielders Im, Alex Chi, and second-half substitution Allen Padua, Harvard quickly went on the offensive, undeterred by the specter of the scoreboard.Winning individual battles through concise dribbling and clever through balls, the Crimson capitalized on a Mike Fucito corner kick in the 83rd minute, as Hoff flicked the ball forward to newly entrenched Nyamekye for the equalizer. “We were down with 15 minutes to go, and we [needed] a spark,” Kerr said...
...Mankiewicz (whose older brother Herman wrote Citizen Kane) had been in movies since the early days of talking pictures, and "talkies" is a good description of his very voluble films. His Oscar-winning scripts for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve were filled, stocked, clogged with clever badinage. Nearly 60 years later, those films are still among the pearliest repositories for Hollywood's verbal chic...
...Politically, the Administration may be acting too clever by half. Perhaps the outrage on the right will pass, and the case will slip unnoticed into the books. But the last thing Bush needs right now is to try and explain to an already disillusioned Republican base why he's opposing the death penalty for a convicted immigrant murderer on orders from a bunch of judges in The Netherlands. If he hasn't already, this might make more Americans think twice about the wisdom of ever-expanding presidential power...
That's why space watchers are always looking for clever ways to take high-resolution images from the ground without the atmospheric blurring that made the Hubble such a good idea. And it's why a recent announcement by Cambridge University and Caltech made scientists take notice. By wedding an innovative electronic light detector to the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar in California--until 1990, the world's largest--astronomers were able to snap at least one space photo that was literally twice as sharp as a comparable Hubble image and, they bragged, 50,000 times cheaper...
...this is not about clever marketing. Rather, the treaty should be interpreted as the materialization of an instinct of survival for the continent as a whole. After single-handedly running the globe for centuries, Europe today faces the threat of sinking into oblivion. Through political, economic, and institutional progress, membership to the Union has brought benefits to many countries far beyond the original founders. Where totalitarianism had once consigned whole societies to poverty and underdevelopment, membership to the EU has made Spain and Poland, among others, thrive in the environment of globalization, furthering their relationships with older members like France...