Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light before the outline of the animal is even suggested. The effect is cunning, quixotic, magical, and knows no boundary in time. The cloth, in fact, dates only from the mid-20th century, but the tiger, fashioned from phantom stripes of fabric, was tie-dyed with supernal skill, millimeter by millimeter, by a craftsman whose techniques were passed down over 1,200 years. The lace of Chantilly seems, by comparison, fussy and overemphatic. That tiger prowls with the power...
Eric Ronis skillfully directed the play with unusual stagecraft. The audience sits on the floor (a few can sit on chairs in the corner) and the action frequently shifts from the front to back of the Holmes Living Room. This type of space manipulation is neither confusing nor disturbing, but rather gives the audience more of a sense of progression and reality in the play. Occasionally, when characters enter through windows in night scenes, for example, the brief but cool outside breeze allows viewers easily to imagine the cold northern Great Britain setting. Also, sound effects that come from outside...
...each of the judges complimented the third year-law students on their skill in preparation and presentation. Rehnquist said, "[Their arguments are] fully the equal of many of the arguments we hear in our court...
Like Taylor's last few albums, That's Why I'm Here tantalizes the listener with the artist's guitar playing. However, James' nimble fingers pick just enough to remind us of his immense skill, but not enough to satisfy...
...success is skill as an actor: he must pretend to be what he is not. In a federal court in Baltimore last week, John Walker Jr., 48, whose espionage work for the Soviet Union had gone undetected for nearly 20 years, took on his most difficult role: that of compassionate father. "Mr. Walker was more concerned for his son's future than his own," Defense Attorney Fred Bennett told U.S. District Judge Alexander Harvey II. "I want to do everything I can to help my son Michael," the confessed spymaster and former Navy warrant officer told his lawyer...