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Word: fluent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...syllabus sounds promising, but the lectures often cannot live up to their billings. Certainly, Professor Coles' literary expertise is impressive and his timely anecdotes are entertaining. He is a fluent, engaging speaker, completely at ease talking about his favorite authors and their works. Problems arise, however, as soon as we discover the assumptions underlying his twice-weekly monologues...

Author: By Gloria M. Custodio, | Title: Social Reflection With a Slant | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...Union, where the baritone's dark, sexy voice knocked 'em dead. Ponselle's sublime vocal poise lights great Verdi arias and ditties like When I Have Sung My Songs to You, I'll Sing No More. Easily the most joyous singer is Schipa, with his diaphanous tenor tones and fluent ornamentation. There was a real nap on the operatic velvet back then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 6, 1989 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Aerobics begins with five or 10 minutes of "warm-up." (For those not fluent in Aerobicspeak, "warm-up" means extreme pain...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Low-Impact, High Pain | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...Australia, and his sometime partner Joseph Zappala, 56, is proposed for Spain. Both are members of Team 100, a roster of G.O.P. contributors who gave more than $100,000 to party causes in the past year. On his qualifications form, under the heading "Languages Spoken," Sembler listed "English (fluent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking Lemons for the Plums? | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Alexiades, who is fluent in Greek and Spanish, has also served as a foreign language tutor for the last ten years...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Alexiades Takes Home Fay Prize | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

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