Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though still trailing, Gonzalez and his supporters worked extremely hard to make the vote closer than expected with a clever campaign in which they attempted to turn any anti-Americanism on its head. "Isn't it better to discuss our defense with our European partners instead of just with the Americans?" asked Gonzalez. In an effort to increase the size of the yes vote, the referendum promises, in addition, that nuclear weapons would continue to be prohibited on Spanish soil and the number of authorized U.S. troops in Spain would be reduced from its current number...
BERNARD SLADE, WHOEVER he is, probably thought he was pretty clever when he wrote Romantic Comedy. There are lots of parallels between the play in which the actors are acting and the plays they are writing during the play. They discuss the characters in their plays as if they are really just characters, when everyone knows that these characters are really the actors in the play we are watching. Sound confusing and convoluted? It's really not--not enough, that...
...rotten Sheds, allways tumbling or takeing Fire, with winding crooked passages, lakes of Mire and rills of stinking Mud, as befits the smokey grove of Moloch." In the eerie interplay between the earlier age and our own, Ackroyd has fashioned a fictional architecture that is vivid, provocative and as clever as, well, the devil...
...early to make plans, he said. Because he has fallen far behind in his chosen field, mathematics and computer technology, he acknowledged that it would be "something of a problem" to return to his old line of work. But nobody who knew the brave, resourceful and clever young man of conscience in Moscow in former times doubted that he would find ways to fulfill his dreams...
...comprehensive study of people who have been prosecuted under computer-crime laws, suggest that although teenagers like the members of Milwaukee's widely heralded "414" gang are a real annoyance, the most serious losses are caused by electronic miscreants who are a good deal older and not half so clever. "Generally, these are unsophisticated crimes," says the center's director, Jay BloomBecker. "The myth that computer crime is this romantic activity done by geniuses and involving millions of dollars is just that--a myth...