Word: adept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this particular movie the composing team portrayed is Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby of Tin Pan Alley fame. The stars are Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. Astaire provides the usual amount of softshoe and tap dancing at which he is still very adept, but Skelton is not as funny as usual. Since there is virtually no plot, your reaction to the film depends upon how well you like the songs and Astaire's dancing. To me, Astaire's light-footed work on the boards and his casual acting and singing make any picture he is in worth seeing...
...matinee featured A punting exhibition by Lowenstein and Gil O'Neil. O'Neil, who was dropped to second string quarterback over the weekend in favor of Lewenstein, is a sturdy sophomore who kicks with his left foot and passes with his left hand. He is quite adept as a punter, but Lowenstein holds a decided advantage when it comes to paining...
...woman who specializes in criminal law and domestic relations, she served 18 years as a referee in Chicago's juvenile court, since then has developed a thriving practice on Chicago's South Side. On a tour of the Orient last year, Edith Sampson showed that she was adept at the kind of debate which breaks out in the U.N. Heckled by an Indian about racial conditions in the U.S., she conceded that there were shortcomings, but added: "I would rather be a Negro in America than a citizen in any other land." The heckler sat down...
These unanimous and near-unanimous votes were significant, but they did not tell the whole story. The Senate was no longer a cave of winds echoing to the oratory of such agile and bitter isolationists as William Borah, Gerald Nye and Burton Wheeler. The dissenters of 1950 were less adept men, like Missouri's fuzz-tongued James P. Kem or Kenneth Wherry, the minority leader from Nebraska, or droning George Malone of Nevada. Conspicuous in their van last week stood the usually forceful and logical Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The President, said Taft, had no legal authority...
...barrister who wins the case was a rich treat of tasteful theatrical ham. But the grand-mannered role is so patently written to be played across footlights that, before the lifelike intimacy of the camera, even a technically flawless performance by Robert Donat fails to inspire belief. Usually an adept dramatic craftsman, Scripter Rattigan also runs up a debt to his audience that he never pays. The Winslow boy is finally cleared, but the movie fails to clear up the mystery of how such a volume of seemingly damning evidence came to be lodged against...