Word: tortuously
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...tango that got its start in the bordellos of Buenos Aires a century ago and even today seems almost shocking in its arrant sensuality. "The tango expresses something deep in our personalities," says Héctor Orezzoli, who conceived the revue along with his friend Claudio Segovia. "The dance is tortuous, complicated, intricate, mysterious, rough, but also sophisticated and full of humor and irony...
...arcane abacus of nuclear armaments to the broader themes of superpower rivalry and coexistence. But inevitably policies are made by people, whose force of character and personalities can count for as much as their policy views. The zero-sum qualities of Reagan's top advisers have nearly paralyzed the tortuous process of hammering out an arms-control proposal that is acceptable to both Reagan and the Soviet Union. The man charged with shaping a consensus, National Security Adviser McFarlane, has great expertise in arms control and the will to move quarreling partisans, but he has failed to sway his chief...
...pulling off one of the most groundbreaking investments ever made in China. In May Newbridge, based in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to purchase nearly 18% of Shenzhen Development Bank for $160 million, making the fund the first foreign investor to take management control of a Chinese bank. The tortuous negotiations took two long years. "There are few people I know who have the same tenacity," says Newbridge co-chairman Richard Blum...
...pulling off one of the most groundbreaking investments ever made in China. In May Newbridge, based in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to purchase nearly 18% of Shenzhen Development Bank for $160 million, making the fund the first foreign investor to take management control of a Chinese bank. The tortuous negotiations took two long years. "There are few people I know who have the same tenacity," says Newbridge co-chairman Richard Blum...
...didn't return to films until 1949, and then in a small role in a B picture called Impact. As the hero's housekeeper she is mostly mute and still, a piece of antique statuary, hoarding secrets in deference to her good master. When she speaks, it's in tortuous translations from the pseudo-Cantonese ("It is the hope that Su Lin was of small help to Mr. Williams"), Eleven years later she was another housekeeper in the Ross Hunter production Portrait in Black, this time supporting Anthony Quinn, who had done small roles in her late-30s Paramount films...