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Word: skillfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The more serious defenses of Israeli-South African ties deserve analysis. One argument is that Israel, isolated in the world, has no place to turn but to South Africa. The corollary of this view holds that, as Irving Howe put it, Israel's isolation in the world community is the...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Too Close for Comfort | 12/2/1983 | See Source »

The problem with Fosse's technique, which is a skillful blend of narrative action, reminiscences about Dorothy and Paul from those who knew them, interviews with Dorothy after she became famous, and blood-drenched flashbacks to the afternoon of the murder, is that you know the ending, and must wait...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Anatomy of an Anatomy | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

Screenwriter Edward Hume and the film makers were correct in choosing to avoid blaming either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. for the initiation of catastrophe. This moral neutrality may be one reason the network is actually going to broadcast their film, advertisers or not, champions or not, critics or not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Nightmare Comes Home | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

The Name of the Rose is fundamentally a detective story whose unlikely protagonists are a Franciscan monk and his young novice. Also, who records the events. The pair resembles Sherlock Holmes and the beloved if befuddled Dr. Watson and it is probably no accident that the elder monk is named...

Author: By Deborah J. Franklin, | Title: Murder in the Cathedral | 7/22/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Dennis R. Barnhart, 40, president of Eagle Computer, Inc., a thriving young microcomputer firm that, partly through his skillful management, had doubled its sales every quarter since its May 1982 incorporation; of injuries suffered when his red Ferrari swerved out of control, tore through a guard rail, and crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 20, 1983 | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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