Word: skillful
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...night before it was due and eventually not studying for a midterm at all. Before long I was not doing well anymore, but at the same time I was not doing badly. I was the queen of the perpetual B and B+. I was rather pleased with my new skill--give classes my least, unless something particularly interesting was happening and forgetting about it. I even convinced myself that my large economics classes were bringing this behavior out in me, and that I could always do better if I wanted...
With this wake-up call, the Harvard women started to move forward again. Stauffer created a legitimate chance for herself, and in the process displayed the incredible skill that makes her the star that she is. After beating two UMass defenders, she had a shot, only to have it blocked again, this time from a fingertip save from Dion...
...campaign strategy, but it is a game the Republicans have played much better than the Democrats until this year. For the Democrats to play it suddenly with equal success does seem almost like cheating. Two things made this possible. Republicans are happy enough to credit Clinton's enormous political skill: it's a way of denying any larger message from Dole's defeat. But the Republicans' own hubris was equally important. Democrats won by accusing Republicans--often inaccurately--of attempting to be precisely what the Republicans claimed to be: agents of history, carrying the message of smaller government...
...bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married, his resistance to her will break down. "Richard LaGravenese is one of the few screenwriters left who can write smart dialogue for grownups to speak, but that skill only occasionally distracts from the desperation of his basic conceit," notes TIME's Richard Schickel. "Bridges is a terrific actor, but, putting it mildly, he's miscast in the Doris Day role. And Streisand is a terrific presence, but also a performer who never forgets who she really is. Second Hand...
Gibson described the art of acting as the skill of deception...