Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Floppy disks for personal computers generally come in bare-bones cardboard cases; the imagination all goes into the programming. For the Ability software package, though, Toronto's Spencer/Francey Group has designed a clever casing in black mat plastic that alludes to the injection-molding process itself: the shapes of computer keys and a disk stand in relief, as if actually slipped into the mold. Going to a decorative extreme, Sava Cvek Associates has designed a lamp that seems more like a sculpture than a functional object. Dauntingly tall (6 ft. 4 in.), their light is a lush, glowing monolith...
Somehow, whether at Bright Center or Fenway Park or Duke Soccer Field, I never used to give those taunts a second thought. If they were clever, I chuckled, if they were stupid, I groaned, if they were biting, I worried a bit about the athlete...
...this 1982 semi-autobiographical play, Fugard portrays a bitter, perhaps irreparable break between Hallie (Andrew Sullivan), a clever white prep-school student, and the two black men who had become his surrogate family. Placed in a Port Elizabeth tea-room of 1950, the cast captures all of their pain with power and immediacy...
Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 52. Widely regarded as the second most powerful man in Iran, after Khomeini, Rafsanjani is a sharp-witted and clever politician. His power base is his position as Speaker of the mullah- dominated Majlis, or parliament, but he also has close ties to Khomeini and to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards. Though his title of hojatoleslam is just one rank below ayatullah, Rafsanjani is no Islamic zealot. On most national issues he is said to have recently become a pragmatist, willing, for instance, to open doors to the West and to compromise in order...
...taking most of the pratfalls himself, James seems to play along with the Aussie baiting that "for the English chattering classes . . . had begun to serve as a mild form of licensed antiSemitism." But like many a clever provincial before him, he knows that writing well is the best revenge. In his pages, it is the English who emerge as outlandish, not least in their accents. One office colleague offered James a cake that proved to be a soft drink. "No, not cake," she explained. "Cake. Cake-Akela...