Word: fluent
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Today Davidovich, 56, is recognized in her adopted country as a leading international pianist, acclaimed for her fluent, elegant interpretations of Schumann and Chopin. Unlike those Soviet emigres who left their homeland seeking greater personal freedom and artistic success, Davidovich came to the U.S. for only one reason: to be with her son, Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, 30, who left the Soviet Union in 1977 to study at the Juilliard School in New York. "My son is my life," explains the quintessential Jewish mother, a widow since 1958. "I couldn't live without seeing...
...fact, despite the abysmal state of fashion and ephemera, some depictive art of the '80s in America is in fine shape. Those who doubt this might consult the current retrospective of the fluent, tantalizingly mysterious work of Jennifer Bartlett, 44, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. One might also adduce the small, concentrated paintings of Mark Innerst, 28, which inject photo-derived images of Great Tourist Views (colossi of Memnon in Egypt, the Hudson River landscape of the 19th century) with a remarkable feel for the subtleties of atmosphere...
...Montreal during World War II, alone and with $5 in her purse. As she describes her prospects, "My only commercial asset was that I knew French, but French was of no professional use to anyone in Canada then -- not even to French Canadians; one might as well have been fluent in Pushtu." Still, she perseveres, ultimately finds a job on a local newspaper and sets out to become a writer, much as the author herself did in the late 1940s. Such determination and pluck are rare among Gallant's outcast characters. When the girl's native country fails to meet...
William Boyd, 33, who until recently taught at Oxford, brings considerable zest to this fluent, raucous, untidy narrative. He has written two previous novels--An Ice-Cream War, set in World War I, and A Good Man in Africa, a comedy that takes place in a former British possession. Both are more controlled and disciplined. Beside them, Stars and Bars is something of a hoot, based as much on the garbled America of TV as the real thing. Boyd is fine as long as he stays in New York City. In the South his story tends to unravel...
...Japanese small trucks. As for the allegedly aggressive takeover of U.S. consumer markets, Yardeni admits succinctly, "Part of the problem is that the Japanese make awfully good products." Also, U.S. businessmen bring a few cultural barriers of their own to the bargaining, starting with their reluctance to become fluent in the language of their prospective clients. Jokes an official of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo: "If you say all barriers must be eliminated, the Japanese would have to stop speaking Japanese...