Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps paradoxically, to the crossword puzzle, which is the epitome of vexing emptiness. What the puzzle does not offer at first glance, however, it makes up for in promise: we know that it is possible to finish the task of the crossword puzzle, should we have the strength and skill. Further, it enables us to use our linguistic and calculating capabilities toward a pure pursuit, without the sense of response we demand from conversation, or the compensation we get from employment. The crossword puzzle is a two-dimensional siren, and it is only the uninitiated and deaf who can resist...
Upon arrival, students--who may or may not have anticipated the reality--are forced to cope on their own with the effects of Valedictorian Syndrome, the sense each Harvard student has by the end of high school that he or she has mastered some subject area or skill. Problems arise when these talented individuals convene and butt heads without the proper head gear in contests of one-upmanship. It's dirty subtle fighting, and the administration permits this same scenario to play itself out each fall. That's where first-year drinking comes...
...predicament is all the more surprising since he made $100,000 on his book. With that sort of pot, how could a man with proven skill--a seemingly perfectly sane man who is neither an alcoholic nor a drug addict--possibly find himself homeless for the second time in five years? The simple answer is that, without additional income from a steady job, $100,000 is consumed rather quickly by a middle-class life-style. For starters, income taxes took $22,000 off the top. Eighner ran through the rest in less than three years. He rented a house...
...professionals, of whom, in America, there are many. Their theories range from the sociological to the psychological to the quasi political. "There is a greater diversity of road users now than at any other time in history," says Hawaii's James. "Therefore streets are not reserved for the optimum, skilled driver but accommodate a variety of driver groups with varying skill, acuity and emotional control"--jerks, in nontechnical lingo. And unlike in previous generations, the willingness to be a jerk on the road is no longer confined to a single...
From a technical stance, one could argue the merits of the show. Moby really made very little musical contribution to the music; except for the punk intervals, much of the music came from pre-recorded DATs, which the musicians played over. Technical skill, however, is not how the virtue of Moby's music should be judged. Moby operates on a more directly emotional level. His goal is simply to induce euphoria, which he does with ease by putting a very human spin on the music...