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...Reagan comparison applies to Feinstein's daunting skill as a speechmaker, especially on TV, which dominates electoral politics in California. Van de Kamp himself grudgingly acknowledges that "she is telegenic, speaks extremely well and conveys warmth." Feinstein learned much of her technique -- especially cadence and syncopation -- from a number of preachers in the black churches she often visits. Concludes state assembly speaker Willie Brown, who has known her for 30 years: "Dianne is as good a communicator as Ronald Reagan -- without the Chamber of Commerce jokes." To Feinstein, in fact, public performance is not a sideshow but something that cuts...
...civilians with dreams of glory, anyone with $10,000 and a detectable pulse rate may enter. They won't let you sign up for Wimbledon, will they? Alas, poker is a pure gambling game only in the very short run. Beyond the quirk of a single hand, skill takes over and twirls its mustache. The trouble is that a single hand can run you out of town. Last year's winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., 24, a tall, weedy youth whose soft face projects an unsettling expression of sweet decay, jukes and twitches to the music of his Walkman. He piles...
...policy ex-Coach Jape Shattuck had espoused during his tenure from 1981 to 1986. Now, with current Coach Mike Getman at the helm, the team was changing. Instead of the fast and physical game Knight had grown used to in England, Harvard was gradually beginning to emphasize the skill and patience which characterize the American school of play...
...senior faculty members tend to agree that, while it is difficult to balance the two factors, teaching skill alone does not make a good professor...
Tiffany trained as a painter; several of his mediocre oils are included in the show, testament more to his sense of composition than his skill with a brush. Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture. As an interior decorator, he brought exotic warmth to the drafty drawing rooms of Vanderbilts and Mellons. He added Moorish spice to Mark Twain's study, and in the 1880s swathed the public rooms of the Chester A. Arthur White House with such exuberance that one critic compared the ambiance to "steamboats...