Word: deftly
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Barak's campaign appears to be quite effective. Polls indicate that Barak will best Bibi by a margin of 49 percent to 38 percent today. However, these statistics may not be attributable to James Carville's deft spinning or Arthur Finkelstein's campaign blunders. Rather, the polls more likely reflect the fact that the electoral landscape has tipped in Barak's favor over the last few days. Thus far, the race between Netanyahu and Barak has been neck and neck. Therefore, every percentage point counts. Very recently, the Israeli-Arab prime ministerial candidate, Azmi Bishara, dropped out of the race...
...with the Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel, Steve Miller, Devo, the Cars; it is dished out with lush harmony vocals, broad keyboard textures, generous acoustic guitars, rich percussion tracks, even string, and delightfully subtle twists of sounds. Fountains of Wayne are hip, well-bred and deft at slinging pop culture saturation through suburban rockers, witty ballads and sincere lovesongs with equal flair. The lyrics are sometimes distant, but that does not detract from an album of tightly-crafted...
Freshman Andrea Magyera, playing in the No. 2 slot for the Crimson, dominated her Dartmouth counterpart Allison Taff, 6-2, 6-2, to finish her Ivy season undefeated in singles play. Mixing powerful groundstrokes with deft backhand drop shots, Magyera made quick work of Taff...
...times when more blurring would have been a relief, and he attacked the first movement cadenza with all the grace of an angry farmer. The effect was wild, precipitous, unique--but out of place. The second movement demonstrated Schiff's peerless trill technique, while the third hurdled toward a deft close as leprechaun-like as the diminutive pianist himself...
...death as a wily escape from a bad publishing contract. Initially, I was skeptical of this claim; it sounded like a suspiciously convenient excuse to bring out a sequel to the original, and very successful, first novel. However, Jack Crabb soon won me over with his humor and deft storytelling abilities...