Word: effortlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...returned to Libya, Gaddafi began to organize his fellow officers into secret cells to plan a way to overthrow the regime of the aged King Idris, whom he regarded as a corrupt and effete tool of Western oil companies. In 1969 Gaddafi led an efficient, bloodless coup, an effortless overthrow that seemed to have the tacit support...
...Some guys throw hard," Perlozzo says, "but they look it. Dwight was so smooth, effortless. Almost the only time you could sense the energy was when, say, there was a man on third with one out and he didn't want a ground ball to score a run. That's when he started pumping up his velocity, pulling out something extra. You could see it." A base runner juked Gooden into balking once. "That rattled him," Perlozzo remembers with a smile: a valuable lesson learned. But when he cooled out, Gooden strung together 15 victories that included a 46-inning...
...movement showpiece for violin and orchestra has never won a firm place in the standard repertory. Sometimes in performance, it even has its third movement omitted, for unfathomable reasons. But a high-spirited, sensitive soloist can make it effective, and Mutter, 22, is that ideal performer. A German whose effortless technique and voluptuous sound put her in the forefront of today's young instrumentalists, she lights up the Iberian peninsula with her dazzling technique. If anything, her performance of Sarasate's lusty Gypsy fantasy Zigeunerweisen is even more spectacular...
...silhouettes in some three-dimensional shadow play. Below, on the 19th century floor, a woman dresses for the opera in a ravishing gown by Charles Frederick Worth; across the gallery, an array of simple cottons and linens arranged as if for a Sunday outing at a park creates an effortless paradigm of everyday elegance...
...only problem with this approach is that it requires a light touch. See Alan Cox's wonderful Repo Man or Scorsese's street-smart After Hours for effortless demonstrations of a delicate hand. But Subway, with its insistent apathy and learn-while-you're-luny preachiness, is as subtle in the end as a Punch and Judy pugil stick...