Word: adeptly
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...parody of western drama. Restless and feisty, she wants to become a bull rider too. Bud disapproves, just as he does of her flirtation with an ex-con named Wes (Scott Glenn, who looks tough enough for the part but does not act it). Wes is extraordinarily adept at staying on the bucking machine, and soon enough Sissy has moved in with him. Bud immediately takes up with Pam (Madolyn Smith), a rich man's bored daughter who likes to slum in Gilley's. The destinies of these people, all of whom are about as articulate...
Some, like Dorothy Harding Trower '30, who has spend more than 30 years doing a radio program on Brockton's WBET, became quite adept at straddling career and family. "A lot of people thought it was demeaning for me to go on the air. Somehow, though, I didn't give a shoot," Trower says, adding, "Now it's all different. Nobody's looking askance on women for pursuing careers today...
Moravia has always been adept at manipulating literary conceits for startling effect. He once wrote a novel about a man who talked to his penis. An Italian Joan of Arc who hears the voice of nihilism calling her to action is a promising conception, and the author has not lost his admirable appetite for extremism in the defense of humanism...
...mind is the way fantasy interferes with and distorts perceptions of reality. Having picked up a chauffeur (Richard Romanus) who is obsessed with writing "the Great American Song," the criminals soon add two ladies to their entourage. One, sweetly played by Patrice Townsend, is a yoga adept, a diet freak and, it develops, something of a nymphomaniac who brings a musical Teddy bear to bed with her as she seduces all the males present. Her friend, well played by Irene Forrest, is the opposite: a woman so noisily trying to find herself that she is bound to lose herself...
Naipaul himself meditates in these essays, providing vivid observations, adept analysis, and a command of detail. He brings us in to the ghost town of Montevideo's stopped clocks and neglected monuments, and he makes us weary of the endless muddy river of Zaire. Details in Naipaul's hands naturally, effortlessly fill out his pictures. He uses them to emphasize the very large difference between what he sees in each country and what he hears from their leaders...