Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Villa Park, Calif., heartland of Nixon country, the wholesome, 6 ft. 6 in. senior, who says he has become "very adept at being middle-of-the-road politically," has a stronger feeling about his athletic career...
...movie gets off to an awkward start and improves along with Harry as it goes West. Mazursky is a director (Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love) adept at lancing the excesses and improbabilities of the American culture, but Harry and Tonto is gentler and more bemused than his previous work...
...loyal opposition's most effective spokesman is independent (that is, usually conservative) councilor Alfred E. Vellucci. He is an effective politician, and is as adept at pre-meeting bargaining as he is at stump speaking. Vellucci's uncanny knowledge of Cambridge's affairs, combined with his flair for rhetoric and constant well-aimed barbs at Harvard, has turned him into the most popular councilman...
...statue eerily lit at night; an encounter with a peasant who lost two fingers to Spatoletti's knife and now jokes nervously, "I make the sign of the cuckhold when I salute Il Duce." Wertmuller is certainly in her element as she manipulates these images. But somehow the caricature, adept as it is, seems gratuitous. A brute is a brute, and this stereotyping does little to amplify Tunin's personal hatred of Mussolini...
...athlete fallen into alcoholism, who refuses to become involved with anyone, including his wife Maggie. She is thus not only sexually frustrated and childless but, born into poverty, also fearful of losing the wealth into which she married. On the sidelines is the Reverend Tooker, a local clergyman adept at sniffing a fat bequest for a church memorial...