Word: skill
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Vest is not expected to provide a medicine kit of remedies for MIT's problems, but faculty members familiar with his career say his demonstrated skill as a listener will prove to be invaluable...
...reason for the slight shift toward Pretoria is the skill with which De Klerk has managed his side of the contest with the A.N.C. Since his election last year to replace the autocratic P.W. Botha, he has done more to ease the country's internal conflict than all his predecessors combined. With the pace of change increasing, Mandela and the A.N.C. are in danger of losing the initiative...
...Leonard ends up with two cruelly heavy suitcases filled with human remains is the climax of The Innocent, told with all McEwan's frigid skill. The last part of the book is a hilarious account of the young man's attempts to rid himself of his obnoxious burden. The cases won't fit in railway lockers. A dog smells their contents and tries frantically to avenge the canine species for centuries of subjugation. Finally exhausted, Leonard draws the vultures of both security and treachery to the tunnel...
...Reagan comparison applies to Feinstein's daunting skill as a speechmaker, especially on TV, which dominates electoral politics in California. Van de Kamp himself grudgingly acknowledges that "she is telegenic, speaks extremely well and conveys warmth." Feinstein learned much of her technique -- especially cadence and syncopation -- from a number of preachers in the black churches she often visits. Concludes state assembly speaker Willie Brown, who has known her for 30 years: "Dianne is as good a communicator as Ronald Reagan -- without the Chamber of Commerce jokes." To Feinstein, in fact, public performance is not a sideshow but something that cuts...
...civilians with dreams of glory, anyone with $10,000 and a detectable pulse rate may enter. They won't let you sign up for Wimbledon, will they? Alas, poker is a pure gambling game only in the very short run. Beyond the quirk of a single hand, skill takes over and twirls its mustache. The trouble is that a single hand can run you out of town. Last year's winner, Phil Hellmuth Jr., 24, a tall, weedy youth whose soft face projects an unsettling expression of sweet decay, jukes and twitches to the music of his Walkman. He piles...