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...Deft with the hockey stick," it says of the Catamount center, "he is a slick playmaker." With a half-minute gone in sudden death overtime Saturday night at Bright Hockey Center, Crowley started to carry the puck from behind...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Icemen Take Home Debut, 4-3 On Wheeler's Overtime Goal | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...gradual, cyclic self-revelation. On returning from a three month vacation in Europe to escape his family's problems. Serge has talks with his father and two aunts, his three elder sisters, and his lover, Nicole--and has talks, and has talks, and has talks. Wingrove's blocking is deft: Serge travels an a small circle around his bed, center stage, and is able to enter the houses and lives of each of his relatives with one single step towards their particular corner of the stage. His jerky, frantic movements contrast markedly with the immobility of the others...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Comme-ci, Comme-ca | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

Bartlett is a deft maker of marks; she understands the syntax of representation so well that hardly an inch of surface goes slack. The way she renders the dusty black recesses of a cypress, or the paddle-like leaves of a foreground plant, or the lunar speckling of artificially lit gravel-and does it in terms of relentlessly agile movements of a broad brush-is a lesson in decisiveness. It would be hard to think of more fluent paint handling in current art than the set of three views of the tiled tank, named Pool, 1983. One reads it from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Revelations in a Dank Garden | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...winning point, in which Vigna kept Staley glued to the baseline for eight exchanges before chopping a short backhand out of Staley's reach, epitomized Vigna's deft strategy. Her frighteningly consistent backcourt play was complemented by a strong serve...

Author: By Paul.duke. Jr, | Title: Netwomen Take N.E.'s | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...governed relations between the U.S. and Australia for decades. He also wanted to impress upon Reagan the extent to which Australia's recovery from its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression depends on U.S. economic policy. He apparently succeeded. Said a U.S. business leader: "He's deft, tough and a man of considerable substance. He's a man you can do business with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Whispering Sweet Nothings | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

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