Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time. Indeed Shakespeare himself had made use of mistaken twins, a wooer by proxy in disguise, and a crucial letter and ring in his much earlier Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona. What sets Twelfth Night above its immediate and more remote predecessors is its great skill in combining three plots, its masterly preparation for peak scenes, its more subtle and less garish character painting, the richness of thematic overtones and undertones, and the substantial integration of sung music into its spoken music...
...impervious to ideological criticism. The best work being offered by this company, which has been gathered from all over China for this tour, has deftness and precision that can be awesome even to one who is not familiar with the traditions that inform the performers. At times their pure skill is sufficient to enchant the viewer and take the chill out of the air. But in the end, it is not enough...
...secrets of Jesse Jackson's success is his skill at coining catchy phrases. Some excerpts from Jackson at his quotable best...
Testifying before the Congress's Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller said that policymakers would be "walking through a very narrow valley in the next few months" and would need "tremendous skill" to avoid either another surge in prices or a quick slump back into recession, or perhaps both. Although Miller opposed his colleagues at the Fed on the need for another discount rate increase, he is persuaded that inflation is a more immediate peril than recession; he recommended that Congress postpone the 25?-an-hour increase in the minimum wage (now $2.65) that...
...trio with eyes closed. Throttling down to slow, slow low notes that seemed to float in the air forever-the crowd hanging on breathlessly-she would suddenly take off, sliding up the scale as fast as any sax to land on a sultry, slightly off-center note. With consummate skill, she flecked moody ballads with flirtatious spoken asides and highly rhythmic scat passages: "Do-be-do-be-bop." She never missed a beat, or a wave of applause...