Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear of Star Wars that brought the Kremlin back to the bargaining table. The Soviets are afraid that U.S. computer wizardry and advances in laser and particle-beam research will leave them far behind in a space arms race. For the past six months Moscow has conducted a deft propaganda campaign of mir i druzhba--peace and friendship--designed to put the onus on the U.S. to avoid what the Soviets call the militarization of space. "It is especially important to avoid the transfer of the arms race to outer space," warned Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin...
...both the toughness and the solid sentimentality of film noir. A tune like the title track is a very neat piece of backbeat sleight of hand. It starts out like a celebration of male swagger ("He said goodbye and just walked right out the door"), then turns into a deft bit of deflation ("He looked so good he must have practiced it before"). Songs like this have the grit to make the long run. -By Jay Cocks
...officials found out about the plot only after the Ladispoli roundup. In gratitude for the deft police work, Ambassador Maxwell Rabb paid a 40-minute call on Rome's chief of police, Marcello Monarca. Said Rabb: "Your country has again demonstrated that it is in the vanguard of the fight against subversive and terrorist elements that stain the world with blood...
...deft political moves have made him one of the most valuable players in the Republican Party, but last week U.S. Congressman Jack Kemp, 49, was back on his home turf in Buffalo to attend the retirement ceremony of No. 15, which the former Bills quarterback wore when he led the team to consecutive A.F.L. championships in 1964 and 1965. After his name was added to O.J. Simpson's (No. 32) on Rich Stadium's Wall of Fame, Kemp donned his old jersey and watched his team end a 13-game losing streak by upsetting the first-place Dallas...
...Morris, 40, and his colleagues are paying for their naiveté in Boston federal court, where Redgrave is suing the B.S.O. for breach of contract and violation of her civil rights. In testimony that was by turns rambling, deft and once even tearful, Redgrave, 47, argued that the cancellation of her $31,000, six-performance contract effectively blacklisted her for more than a year. The orchestra "may not be E.F. Hutton," her lawyer told the jury, "but when it talks, people listen." Redgrave testified that she was turned down for a role in a Broadway production for fear that...