Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters grow calmly into a happiness that is, inevitably, cut short by war and its aftermath, "the Lent that was to endure all our lives." One measure of West's skill is her ability to make private suffering seem moving and memorable, even when set against a background of public cataclysm...
Lewis Goldman is impressive in his directorial debut. Goldman's actors are sharp on the delivery and capture just the right expressions, which not only reflects their own abilities but also show the director's skill in coordination. The audience can therefore forgive some directorial mistakes...
...Zilliax has at least as good a range. She plays the shy governess, the repressed housewife, and the bold prostitute all with equal believability and skill. If acting were singing, she could sing five octaves of pure tones...
They are trying with all the heart and skill that wrought an Olympics here in the first place. When the International Olympic Committee awarded the Games to Sarajevo in 1978, the town had a third-rate mountain with a few lifts for recreational skiers and no ice rink at all. They built two rinks and a bobsled run. They also cut a road up a mountain previously traversed only by Tito's Nazi-fighting partisans, and they built hotels, cross-country ski trails and a network of chair lifts to newly hacked-out downhill and slalom courses. They...
...tough, tough competitor," Crimson Coach Bill Cleary says. "He's the best bodychecker we've had here in a long time. He checks at center ice and that's a real skill...