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Word: deftly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind proved a disadvantage: it imposed unreasonable expectations and, for some spectators, turned what would have been a pleasant surprise into mild disappointment that its author is merely a deft % entertainer, not another Tennessee Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Marine Life | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

LOVE LETTERS. Colleen Dewhurst and Josef Sommer are this week's stars in the rotating off-Broadway cast of A.R. Gurney's deft, disarming tale of a half- century relationship lived out largely via pen and paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 2, 1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...heavy torch. On One Bright Day, the new album he made with the Melody Makers (his younger brother Stephen and two of his sisters, Sharon and Cedella), there is a lot of tradition and a little trailblazing. "This album to me sound a little stronger," says Ziggy, 20, with deft Rasta inflections. "A little stronger in the beat. It feel harder, with more aggression. I sing it more aggressive. I'm getting older. Music is a weapon. You can use a gun for murder, or you can use it to defend yourself." That's the choice: clap hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Directions for The Next Decade | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

Bernays, who teaches at the Harvard Extension School, is also deft and amusing in exposing the inside world of academe--the mundane faculty meetings, prima donna behavior and mucked-up administration that is so much a part of what goes on around here...

Author: By Ennifer M. Frey, | Title: Sexism and Slime in the Psychology Department | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

This orchestra, like Sellars' repertory company of gifted young singers, performs admirably under the deft and scrupulous conducting of Craig Smith, and so it is a pleasure to find that Sellars has pretty much left the performers alone in one of the three operas, Figaro. The setting in the Trump Tower is no more than a mild gag, not another excuse for wholesale Sellarsization. Donald Trump does not appear from behind a bush. The singers just sing, and sing beautifully. What a relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Camping Up of Mozart Or, Yo, Don Giovanni is one bad dude | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

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