Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drawn nib is drawing himself. To Steinberg, each drawing remade its author. It was both a mask and a card of identity, and a proof of existence as well. Never an expressionist, he liked, he said, "to make a parody of bravura. I wish to create a fiction of skill in the same sense that my writing is an imitation of calligraphy: fine flourishes that can't be deciphered, official stamps no one can read." What he didn't know about the semantics of style wasn't worth knowing...
...possession of beauty at once sultry, pixie-ish and refined, Friel grew up in northern England aspiring to capitalize on her skill for argument rather than her looks. "I wanted to be a lawyer," she says. "I was on the debating team; we'd re-create Parliament, and I won computers for our school." But a life as Marcia Clark was not to be. During her middle-school years, Friel became involved with a local theater group, performing in student-written plays. At 15, she landed her first TV role, as Michael Palin's daughter in the British series...
This is vintage Greer, profane and highly quotable. Says Knopf president Sonny Mehta, who was at Cambridge with Greer in the 1960s and who, over lunch in London's Soho, encouraged her to write The Female Eunuch: "Germaine is a force." Her skill as a quick-change polemicist is what gives The Whole Woman its flashes of originality: she takes issues on which most progressive women thought they had positions and sets a standard all her own. You think advances in reproductive technology have been good for women? Well, writes Greer (who underwent failed fertility treatments), "I think it rather...
Every parent knows that raising children requires bicycle helmets, Beanie Babies, notebook paper, prayers, skill, the grace of God and plain dumb luck. But what many of us don't ever come to grips with is this: we must take responsibility for the world our children inhabit. We make the world for them. We give it to them. And if we fail them, they will break our hearts 10 different ways...
Taps, a relatively new dance troop specializing in--you guessed it--tap dancing joined the troupe for this performance and was equally enchanting. The feet were fast, the click of the shoes faster and the audience the fastest of all to acknowledge their skill. And alas! those darn toothy smiles! These dancers all looked like they were actually having fun gyrating on the stage, an exceedingly far cry from the tense grimaces otherwise normal people might display if forced to dance the Macarena at a spring formal. And those smiles made all the difference...