Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move into the dead man's condominium apartment in Chicago. It is a terrible mistake. The young man finds himself disastrously enmeshed in the crotchets and suffocating propriety of the older residents. The story proves that Elkin, one of America's most inventive comic writers, is also adept at old-fashioned realism...
...doesn't take much to start Breslin off. He enjoys hearing his gutteral Queens voice make sounds. And he is adept at snapping off quick analyses and critiques of situations and people...
...film grows bleary, however, over the tenderness and eventual sorrow of the relationship. Director-Writer Arthur Barron, though adept at catching the surfaces and undertones of mildly affluent New York life, indulges in a kind of high-calorie sentimentality that seems itself adolescent, without being able to convey the real turbulence and anguish of adolescence. He glazes Jeremy over with winsomeness, and seems to demand that it be liked for its own slightness and vulnerability...
Director-Writer Mazursky is devastatingly shrewd and wry, especially adept at catching the most convoluted of emotional entanglements and turning them into the kind of comedy that pierces. Blume's often quite mad struggle to wriggle back into wedded bliss is an ideal occasion for Mazursky to comment once again (as he did in Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, and in the more ambitious and more interesting Alex in Wonderland) on the folkways of contemporary romance, where an innocent conversation can turn abruptly into a sexual scrimmage, and a tryst into trench warfare. He excels at putting...
...with U.S. soldiers on the Elbe River in 1945; after a long illness; in Moscow. A stern leader and wily strategist, Konev engineered Russia's first serious counterattack against the invading Nazis in 1941, three years later became the first Soviet army commander to penetrate German territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria to death. Khrushchev appointed Konev commander of the Warsaw Pact armies, then, in 1961, shifted him to Berlin to take charge...