Word: adeptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ginna Carter is perhaps the best actor of the bunch. Her characters are all very distinct, and Carter seems as adept at playing a prim governess as a prostitute...
...Republicans are too adept at playing racial politics. The Democrats ceded their hold on the George Wallace crowd when they declared war on Jim Crow back in the 1960s, and the Republicans have accepted them into the fold without protest. House Republican leader Robert Michel (III.) made that clear when he noted that Reagan Democrats would defect to Bush when they "look at the Democratic convention out there and see the one-third Blacks in that composition of delegates...
...other striking thing about Talk is that Richards sings lead on every track--and does it with dexterity. If you laughed at Keith's occasional attempts at lead vocals on Stones albums, you'll be astonished at how adept his singing has become. His voice still has the narrow timbre of old, and his rasp is raspier than ever, but his vocal gymnastics display an unexpected spryness. On one song, the Stax-like "Make No Mistake," he even croons and whispers like Al Green (though without Green's range), curling his voice around each syllable with palpable relish. Keith also...
...Boston University. After graduating in 1970, he worked first for a real estate firm, then for a construction company. But Sasso was restless. In 1974 he became a volunteer for Gerry Studds' Massachusetts congressional campaign. After Studds won, Sasso became his district manager in New Bedford, where he proved adept at selling a Yale-educated liberal to blue-collar constituents...
...candidate whom Sasso had, perhaps too loyally, served. In arranging for an emotional homecoming, the self-reliant Dukakis all but acknowledged that Sasso is the indispensable man. The team of Chairman Paul Brountas and Campaign Manager Susan Estrich had proved adept at directing a safe, within-the-speed-limit strategy that befitted the candidate's personality. But since the Republican Convention, they had been pinned down by the furious fusillades from George Bush. There was no effective counterattack and no coherent battle plan -- just a forlorn candidate clinging to the shopworn themes that had carried him through the primaries...