Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fourth novel does indeed feature the biblical King David as its hero and narrator. And it offers a host of other familiar names and time-tested stories. God Knows even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills...
...ultimate declaration of independence: "None in the world can call me to account for my actions." But even the strongest women tended to preface their shows of strength by confessing themselves the "weaker vessel." Perpetual acknowledgment of her own fragility, Fraser writes ruefully, "was one way . . . in which a clever woman could avoid disapproval...
...character, this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic-movie hero. It has not always been a snug fit. In Pennies from Heaven he was gung-ho but overwhelmed by the musical machinery; in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid he got lost in a clever construct of old movie clips. By the time The Man with Two Brains came out, Martin's stand-up audience had deserted him. A pity: they missed a small, funny film that provided, in its Frankenstein plot of a surgeon in love with the body of one woman...
...show repeatedly indicates, artists have contributed little to the design of the automobile itself. Architects, though, have occasionally gone to the drawing board to produce their visions of a well-designed vehicle; in 1928 Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret proposed a clever small car that was never produced. In the Annan's Parking '30s Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius designed various solid-looking bodies for Adler luxury convertibles. American artists instead used standard models as a kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal...
Your name, you very clever poet...