Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dance-relatively brief, tightly focused pieces on specific works or companies- is adequate, but Robbins trails through the book like a wraith. One gets only pieces of a critique: that his masterpieces are Afternoon of a Faun and Dances at a Gathering, that he is often too clever by half, that he is good at finding the moves that enhance young dancers. One finishes the book feeling the need of a real assessment of Robbins partly because he draws such strong, quirky reactions from...
...figure appeared in a clearing 15 yds. away, wearing a red armband, firing at a target I could not see. I shot, heard the figure say "Eccch, you got me," in a conversational tone and saw a yellow stain from my pellet on his shirt. Feeling quick and clever, I ran on in a crouch. In a stand of small trees, too skinny for good cover, a red player and I caught sight of each other and began to shoot. The pistols made phutt, phutt noises. I could see the paint pellets spin past me, although they were too fast...
...book, adult cops and robbers. It certainly did not carry the brutal symbolic weight of fantasized murder. When Hockmeyer, the Maine riverman, shot me as I was about to grab the red flag and glory, I said "Ooog, good shot" and immediately felt slow and stupid, not quick and clever. But that was the extent of it; I didn't feel dead...
...main character in this 90-minute futuristic flick is Flynn, the video addict's hero. He is not too good looking, and he's not terribly clever. But he plays a mean game of Space Paranoids, and his record score of 999,000 turns on plenty of women who hang around amusement arcades...
...West Side," which is more an indulgence of language that a description of a neighborhood, Nye urges: "Let the names be verses in a city that sings." The exuberance, unfortunately, has the sterile air of a failed experiment-the result of pushing a clever idea to the end of its rope instead of letting the idea soar where it will on its own emotional force...