Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spins it above his head, letting it fly farther and farther, in ever widening circles, like a lariat. The stunt was Daltrey's trademark as lead vocalist of The Who; it is still a profitable skill onstage and in films. Tommy, The Who's rock opera, was a gimcrack parlayed into a remunerative cultural artifact. So far, the various Tommy albums and movie receipts have accounted for some $50 million, in which Daltrey retains a generous participation...
...Korral by driving through it in a truck. Aurora's plain, long-suffering daughter is as poignant as her mother is flashy, and her grim fate at the novel's end seems out of keeping with all the earlier slapstick. Yet McMurtry's skill and compassion all but hide his incongruities...
...Exeter, where he was both quarterback and place kicker, Lynch booted a 48-yard field goal. He does not lack the skill to be a successful kicker...
...always had drawbacks for Black women; being beautiful is our natural state." Yet similar qualms about the image of herself that has been most widely spread don't seem to figure in her mind. Smugly, she explains that writing is the only pastime she is fitted for--her lone skill--and publishes without bothering to catch her breath for a moment and rate the words that drone on and on. She blithely denounces Ralph Ellison, who was reluctant to risk a second novel, and swishes unseeingly by his acrid message still hanging on in the morass of literature--dangling, perhaps...
Opposing this array of high-priced talent will be a team of three federal prosecutors headed by U.S. Attorney James Browning, 42, a tall, thin man who is as dignified in court as K.O. Hallinan and Bailey are flamboyant. Browning is highly regarded in San Francisco for his skill and experience as a prosecutor-he has tried close to 200 jury cases. When he saw the Hearst case coming, he reserved it for himself. Says Browning: "I can't wait to get Patty Hearst on the stand...