Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These two one-acters are hilariously extended anecdotes in the U.S. tradition of the tall story. Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur...
...taxi from San Juan takes almost three hours to reach St. Vincent. As the islands slide by, embedded in their wrinkled sheet of sapphire, you run over your limited skills and lubberly sailing experience and watch your confidence begin to ebb. Bareboating is a cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang...
...resolved, twin brother and sister to be reunited, true love's partners to be mated, and the lowbrow comic shenanigans of that Tweedledum-Tweedledee pair Sir Toby Belch (Leslie Yeo) and Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Frank Maraden) to beguile the time. The entke company is rich in skill and works with selfless unity to bring out the very best in the play...
...unabashed Yorkshire pronunciation brought down the House of Commons with gales of laughter. Apart from that touch of trans-Channel humor, Wilson was somber in talking about the task ahead. "Our future," he said, "will depend on what we are prepared to do by our own efforts, our skill, our technocracy-and our restraint...
...general, there are more students this year who feel that they are leaving Harvard with no skill specialized enough to land them a desirable job. By taking leaves of absence before graduation or before graduate school, these students are recognizing that the United States is what Ginn calls "a credential-oriented society." Students who take short-term jobs in a field related to the one that interests them have a better chance of eventually finding a full-time long-term...