Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Johnson and Connally were polished politicians, adept at their art, and in that way much unlike their successors, Gov. Preston Smith and his crew, who bumbled their way into a widely publicized stock scandal. As the leader of the Dirty Thirty, a group of "suicide" liberal legislators, "Sissy" Farenthold was able to expose some of the corrupt, clandestine practices of the Smith group. Last spring Farenthold lost a run-off for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Dolph Briscoe, a conservative of the Connally line, by a margin of 55-45. Briscoe will win easily on November 7, but Farenthold...
Decency of this sort may be praiseworthy in real life, but it is slim fodder for a sexual comedy. In admirably well-keyed performances, Orbach and Alexander are adept at conveying the festering guilt of two fundamentally honorable people who are good at chatting, bad at cheating...
...fast at its best, Bad Company too often turns arch, and its characters are self-consciously countrified, like admen going to work in bib overalls. Their dialogue has the somewhat disconcerting ring of Huckleberry Finn rewritten for New Yorker cartoon captions. Benton's direction, though, is astonishingly adept for a first feature, while Brown and Bridges make an engagingly boisterous pair. The cinematography is by Gordon Willis (The Godfather), who for reasons unknown has chosen to make everything and every one look brown...
Butcher, who joined the bank in 1947 after graduating magna cum laude from Brown, has much experience in areas where Chase could be stronger. He worked in retail banking as a branch manager and proved himself adept at foreign finance as chief of Chase's international division. Describing Butcher, Rockefeller used the words aggressive, decisive, dynamic, driving. The chairman himself likes to chart broad policy and leave day-to-day operations to other executives. Rockefeller, the bank's largest single shareholder, owns about 1% of Chase's stock, worth some $17 million; last year he collected more...
...like talking to someone of another race," says one officer. "We don't really know when to yell at them, threaten or go gently. We just don't know much, that's all." The fear among some policemen is that the bovver birds, more adept at disguise than male street gangs, and appearing less threatening, will eventually become more proficient than men in the way of violent crime...