His first bossa novas, in the late 1950's, were perfect distillations lasting two minutes or less; the clever pushing and pulling between his stammering guitar rhythms and his voice, and the shrewd, quiet, no-vibrato blankness of his singing style helped create a languorous, innocent mood in popular culture shared by the Western world: James Dean, "The Red Balloon," Chet Baker, bossa nova.
George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg's beach house has a cantilevered construction, complicated sliding-glass doors made in Germany and a clever push-button dumbwaiter, but the element that best captures its spirit are the playful wood lockers.
Russia does not have to hide arms in aid lorries to get them to its proxy forces.Most likely the offer of Russian aid to Luhansk, a city wracked by fighting and left without water or power, is a clever push by Mr Putin to be seen at home to be doing something to protect civilians in the east.
In fact, it is part of a concerted and clever push by the political left that could—just possibly revive an idea that had seemed dead and buried.When Mrs Pelosi revealed, on October 29th, the House's version of a health-reform bill, there were no real suprises; as expected, a public plan featured prominently.
That would be over the top these days when small, clever envelope pushing works best.
But, happily, the idea is sort of original, and definitely witty and clever, while pushing boundaries of artistic freedom and expression.
He wins the next point with a solid serve, but then drops the next with an overly casual shot at the net, trying to be a bit too clever and pushing a forehand wide.
Clever now pushes data on over 650,000 students to different applications on its platform every day, and that number is growing quickly, because Clever provides clean, up-to-date information directly from schools.
At least here Mr. Brown is clever, funny and pushing himself technically.
Brecht's women are ciphers, and their virtues off-the-peg: they may be good-hearted; they are sometimes shrewd (clever would be pushing it), but they are fundamentally reactionary, with their heads full of astrological charts or wedding dresses.
The point of his quip was that while we've found ever more clever ways of pushing around bits of information, we are still living in a material world — and our command of that material world has advanced much less than most people expected a few decades ago.
