Word: tactfulness
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...evidence of Yentl, she has been other women as well: the adoring child listening to her papa, and now telling him what she has learned; the gawky teen-ager eyeing her less gifted rivals; the budding artist stretching the limits of craft and ego; the novice director showing tact and assurance behind the camera; the successful career woman using her power to realize a dream. Three cheers for chutzpah! -By Richard Corliss
...patches, in simple elements charged with energy." The same claims would be made by the postimpressionists-patch and discontinuity, "arrangement" as against continuous modeling. If The Fifer were a little more abstract, more "Japanese," it would almost be a Van Gogh. At times, Manet's tact in balancing the decorative and the real almost passes belief, an example being the black stripe on the fifer's right leg-swelling and closing with negligent grace, extending the black of the tunic only to stop it an interval above the foot...
...scenario may be a cliche by now but it is still tact--as documented clearly movingly and with a new immediacy in Charlie Company What Vietnam Did to Us. Three years ago Newsweek reporters Peter Gockman and Tony Fuller sought out surviving members of the "gook-hunting, dirt-eating, dog-soldiering" typical combat unit known as Charlie Company. They found 54 veterans, flung far and wide since their return to the States at the end of the 1960s. They were postmen, statisticians, woodcutters, drunkards, narcotic detectives who had never before been asked about the Vietnam portion of their lives. Unlike...
Both tasks will make extraordinary demands on Kohl's resources of tact, patience and ingenuity. The difficulties will rise in direct proportion to shifts in public opinion and to the disruptive problems posed by the Greens, who have vowed to challenge West Germany's political consensus by every means at their disposal...
Anthropologists admit that some scholars might not print anything at all about so controversial a subject. Field research in some totalitarian countries, says Columbia University's Thomas Bernstein, demands "a great deal of tact and sensitivity." He concedes: "If I knew that my publication of some material would cause my colleagues to be barred from China, I would think really hard." Some U.S. scholars working in India and Pakistan are careful not to offend their host governments for fear of being expelled. Americans who work as exchange scholars in the Soviet Union can afford to be a bit more...