Word: adept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phenomenon. In a play written 2,400 years ago, Euripedes, the most psychologically oriented of the classical tragedians, inspects the poisoned crop that Agamemnon sowed and reaped when his addled ambitions to win the Trojan War brought him to offer the life of his own daughter. Michael Cacoyannis' adept direction gives an ancient tale modern force...
...tight to cut off the short pass, assuming that there won't be a long one. It is a tactic that could backfire against Oakland, considering the caliber of the Packers' offensive blockers. If Quarterback Starr gets the protection he needs to throw the bomb to such adept maneuverers as Split End Boyd Dowler and Flanker Carroll Dale, Jimmy the Greek could turn out to be a conservative...
...Night of Camp David and Seven Days in May. The success of such books depends on a measure of atmospheric authenticity to give readers the illusion that they are really being taken into White House bathrooms and Pentagon war rooms, and on suspense. Knebel, a former Washington reporter, is adept at providing both qualities, and therein lies the book's virtue...
...confuse blockers, defenders will "stunt," or loop around each other; they may charge high to hurdle a block, or duck low to "submarine" under. They clutch at shoulder pads and jerseys, trying to spin blockers aside and clear a path to the ballcarrier. They have, in fact, become so adept at slipping blocks that not even the punter, standing 15 yds. back of the line of scrimmage, is safe any more. Kickers who used to count on 1.5 sec. to get the ball away now find that they must boot it within 1.2 sec.; this season in the N.F.L...
...life of the jungle of cities-the crippled Oklahoma soldier (Beau Bridges). The Incident thus plausibly proposes the desiccating, depersonalizing pressure of urban life itself as the probable villain. And Director Larry Peerce moves far beyond his 1964 One Potato, Two Potato in welding his cast of adept Hollywood second-string players (among them, Thelma Ritter, Jack Gilford, Jan Sterling and Ruby Dee) into a concerted exposition of this plausibility...