Word: skillfull
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The U.S. has been following the South Korean crisis closely in the hope that Washington can somehow help bring it to an end. Among other statements last week, the State Department counseled against any attempt to forcibly dislodge a group of 500 students who took refuge in Seoul's Myongdong...
THE REASON Leland manages to pull together the disparate strands of the book into something more than a skillful pastiche is his sure touch with his characters and his elegant writing style. While he puts about 10% more-adjectives into a paragraph than I like to see, he avoids the...
But as a whole, Pubis Angelical does not live up to the expectations created by the skillful writing and the intimations of impending revelation. Sometimes the recurring plot elements seem to repetitive, a passionate lover after passionate lover turns out to be a spy; sometimes the exaggerated characters become only...
This exchange is not exactly typical. Young and Denomme are much better informed, and far more concerned, than the great majority of their fellow citizens about the threat of economic warfare between the U.S. and Japan. But their argument does point to some of the bewildering crosscurrents in American attitudes...
All of it is very improbable, stupid stuff, but it is also what physical farce is made of. The Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin used to play these sorts of raucous gags, and these days people like the Coen Brothers (Raising Arizona) are among its most skillful practitioners. Blake Edwards...