Deciding how to respond to Microsoft's growing host of competitors has fallen to a bullet-domed, hulking, boisterous whirlwind whose friendship with Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder and chairman, dates back to their college days and whose dexterity and acumen will determine Microsoft's fate.
If Mr. Brown is an artist whose dexterity and industry have never coalesced into a style to call his own, Mr. Dubovsky, who is about 60, has suavely parlayed a restless love of painting and culture into something that passes for one.
More than a quotable motormouth, this is one surprisingly multifaceted cartoon villain: a genial sadist, an oppressively polite interrogator, a hyper-articulate polyglot whose verbal dexterity is his scariest weapon.
The critics have, for the most part at least, been rather dazzled by this unorthodox biopic of Ian Dury, that unlikely lad of the late 70s and early 80s music scene: a pugacious polio survivor whose lyrical dexterity delved the mucky depths of British society for pearls of wisdom.
"Weirdly, I think what Gary Barlow thinks cabaret is – mainstream, accessible, unchallenging, boring, bland – is actually what he does," says "gentleman juggler" Mat Ricardo, whose shows fuse dexterity with storytelling, as well as a rich knowledge of variety heritage and his signature tablecloth trick.
Lois Nettleton, an actress whose dramatic and comic dexterity in theater, film and television earned her wide public recognition and deep professional respect for more than a half century, died on Friday in Woodland Hills, Calif.
However, using a conventional keyboard for Internet access is prohibitive for persons whose hand coordination and dexterity are impaired by ailments such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and other severe handicaps.
Mr. Pizzarelli is a great comic storyteller and mimic whose verbal precision almost matches his dexterity as a high-speed finger-picker who scats in unison with his guitar solos.
Then one evening, missing the big city and digging around in a box of old CDs, it occurred to me that the tragedians might find their modern equivalents in the dark energy and verbal dexterity of the rappers whose work my generation had been drawn to as teenagers: the Wu Tang Clan embraced and vilified by the media in equal measure.
People pay attention whether he shouts or whispers, and he's that hip-hop rarity -- a rapper whose career has lasted -- because he matches his verbal dexterity and ear for tracks with basic, unmistakable performer's charisma.
This Caravaggio, played in the new production by Patrick O'Kane, is a swearing, swaggering loudmouth whose talent with a paintbrush is rivalled only by his dexterity with a hidden dagger.
