Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While an investigation into mail or wire fraud can take up to two years, an alert diploma salesman can move on to a new location almost overnight. Charles Alfred Durham, 54, of Seneca, S.C., who has been charged with mail fraud in connection with three diploma mills, has a clever defense: that the diplomas, costing up to $940 for a doctorate, were only "expensive novelties." Says Durham's lawyer, Daniel Day: "People who bought these diplomas knew exactly what they were getting, and I don't think the FBI can show otherwise...
...That's what Michael has." Gene Kelly talks about Jackson's "native histrionic intelligence and his great wit. He knows when to stop and then flash out like a bolt of lightning. There are a lot of dancers who can go 90 miles an hour, but Michael is too clever for just that." From Fred Astaire comes perhaps the ultimate tribute: "My Lord, he is a wonderful mover. He makes these moves up himself and it is just great to watch. I think he just feels that way when he is singing those songs. I don't know how much...
Hart's "industrial policy" is more nebulous. Basically, he would coordinate disparate Government policies (banking regulations, tax laws, research-and-development funding) according to one grand strategy. Some of his specific economic plans are reasonable enough, but others seem almost too clever, as if the candidate acquired ideas wholesale from a think-tank catalogue. Hart recommends bold agreements between labor, industrial management and Wall Street. Fine, but he practically ignores the political and bureaucratic impediments. It might be a good idea to set up a presidential Council on Emerging Issues to address long-term economic strategy, but Hart...
ALTHOUGH THE MUSICAL achievements of this album come as quite a surprise, the lyrics are as eccentric and clever as always. Anderson's surrealistic imagery- "he told her about the time there was a big typhoon on the island, and all the sharks came out of the water and they walked right into your house with their big white teeth,"--and her short, suggestive sentences--"You always know what to say. And when to go But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark"-combine to create a strange, dreamlike atmosphere. And of course, she still retains...
...mundanely detailed conversation over cocoa and marshmallows between a daughter who intends to commit suicide and a mother desperate to stop her. Now, in Traveler in the Dark, Norman has turned away from the art-as-life style and has crafted a witty, eloquent, far-ranging and altogether too clever play...