Word: deft
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...rest of the world is picking up steam. The pace is by no means even, of course. Some regions, like Latin America, are up against forces they cannot control; others, like Japan, are wallowing in the economic trough of the past. The overall outlook is heady. But only the deft will prevail in this supercharged economy. More than ever, even the most nimble are ultimately at the mercy of American shareholders, who could wake up one morning soon and decide that the stock market is for the birds...
...issue features articles by Bret Easton Ellis and A.M. Homes, not exactly new voices but evidence of Betts' dedication to deft writing. And the opening section's Bazaar Report puts a journalistic spin on style by showing how runway fashions are worn in real life. While the new Bazaar differs markedly from the old one in content, it joins a crowded field of sources from television to the Internet to lifestyle magazines that offer women of all tax brackets style tips on makeup and clothing and peeks at celebrity wardrobes...
...replaced by long drifts of spare and enigmatic statements or imperatives clothed in noble posturing. Yet when the poems do work (see particularly the title piece), Graham can still use language like a philosopher's spade to dig into experience--how we sense and think. These can be intoxicatingly deft moments, close to the ground of what it is to be alive...