Word: deft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ugly wife. If the maxim still applies, Rio de Janeiro is a less secure place today. For the former capital of Brazil has become a world capital of the plastic-surgery industry, and ugly wives by the hundreds are being remolded into well-proportioned visions of beauty. The deft use of vanity surgery, as the Brazilians call it, has provided women who flock in from all over the world with new faces, larger (or smaller) bosoms, slimmer hips and even bottoms sculpted into svelte contours more suitable for slacks...
Less Than Deft. The chief effect of the Chau fiasco was to show that Thieu is less than deft in handling opposition. In recent years, he has turned relatively ineffectual opponents like Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential election, and Thich Thien Minh, a leading Buddhist, into near martyrs by arresting and imprisoning them. Now, as a U.S. official in Saigon notes, "he has changed Chau overnight from a political nonentity into an international figure." When Chau gets a new trial to appeal his conviction, probably this week, he can be expected to make the most...
...Alice was showing in Boston: "Two young married couples find that the cost of sexual and marital experimentation is higher than they had reckoned and as they beat a quick retreat from philosophical bed swapping, Hollywood also retreats from the serious moral issues at hand. Only some deft humor and several fine performances save...
CASTRATED clergymen, ingratiating prostitutes, and lusty rebels: The Blacks has all these in its menagerie of characters. With endearing clumsiness and sententious didacticism, Jean Genet has written a clowncrie (clown show) as subtle as this production at the Loeb Drama Center is deft and forthright. The New African Company, in conjunction with the Theatre Company of Boston, offers on the Loeb mainstage (normally bereft of black performers) a panoply of gifted black actors and actresses, in a visual spectacle of remarkable exuberance...
...deft hands of Moore or Genovese, Marxian class analysis exposes strata of human experience that were not apparent to previous historians. But history is too rich and varied to yield its secrets to one method alone...