Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have the money to do so Perhaps the strongest credentials belong to Robert R. Kiley, deputy mayor in White's pre-machine years and a former MBTA general manager, Kiley, though, has less than a tenth of what the mayor has in the bank. White's clever play of briefly raising the possibility of a strong ran by State Senate President William Bulgar, a White ally, helped ensure the poverty of the anti-White forces by encouraging campaign contributors to take a wait-and-one attitude, while White built up his funding lead...
...offguard answer or, failing that, to describe the subject's evasive tics and mannerisms. Hatchet jobs survive, among other places, in the Style section of the Washington Post, whose good cultural coverage and criticism are burdened by a relentless ambition to be with-it and clever. (In its year-end listing of what is In and Out, the Post proclaims 1983 as the year "when it is really Out to be In," which rendered pointless the whole silly exercise...
...techniques. Filmed at various speeds, the movie blasts too far forward in a flurry of quickly edited footage of Charlie's arrival on the island. Various scenes are introduced--as if in a silent film--with a paragraph describing the proper procedure for that part of the wedding. These "clever" filming devices deter from the movie's overall effect, confusing the central action...
...governess, Nan Hughes gives the best performance of the evening. Her clear, beautiful voice and effectively expressed character speak of a matronly yet passionate nature. She doesn't need to use extraneous actions to reveal her character. In one remarkably clever bit of business, the governess narrates a silent film in which her two young charges--the young princesses--meet and repel an undesirable man. With her magnificent voice leading the miming of the other actors behind a screen lit by flashing light, we momentarily forget that anyone else has to sing. Unfortunately, we can't forget for long...
JENSEN FARLEY PICTURES' animated fairy tale The Last Unicorn confirms, by default, that only Walt Disney had what it takes. Although Unicorn contains some innovatively clever characters, the piece as a whole lacks the fluidity of images, the magnificance of each character's movements, and the timelessness of plot that give Walt Disney productions their eternal appeal. Like other recent endeavors to animate fantasy books--Tolkien's The Hobbit, for example--the adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's novel The Last Unicorn fails to capture through animation all the intricacies of plot and description usually woven by words...