Word: adeptly
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...impresario Billy Rose to Streisand's Brice, stands up well under the painful effulgence of her superstardom. He is a scrappy actor, always looking for an opening, and he finds his full share of them-or makes them. Only Robert Redford in The Way We Were was so adept at keeping his balance. Redford did it by playing off Streisand and cooling her out. Caan goes straight at her, battling for every breath, every inch of screen space...
Four continents, three children, and as many colleges later than that first trans-cultural entry into higher education at a tender 15, I am soon to be entered in the rolls of the academically adept. Yet I quail before the suggestics that I might not belong in the more 'legitimate' learning atmosphere of our college-age young...
...gate-keeper's cottage and the sedentary notion of retirement. Fisher is good at resisting such facile conclusions or categorizations. When he entered Harvard Law School in 1948, he directed the registrar not to inform him of his grades, so as to "demote their importance." He is so adept at demoting the importance of such figures that he does not know his height, cannot recall when he began growing his moustache, and has trouble remembering his birthday...
...movie is fast, canny, tough-minded about the blandishments and attendant sacrifices of superstardom. Director Michael Apted and Scenarist Ray Connolly (who also wrote That'll Be the Day) are most adept at getting across the quality of quick chaos that attends this kind of celebrity, and they excel at making both lucid and scary the business dealings of an unwary superstar...
High Living. Brother and sister both inherited some money, yet the testimony of close friends is that the pair were all too adept at spending. "Eben rented a penthouse," says LeRue Grim, his attorney, "and lived as extravagantly as anyone could. He spent it all." Amy, willowy, beautiful and sophisticated, may have shown a bit more restraint, but she did her share of high living, too. She spent about three months in Rome in 1973, ostensibly studying sculpture but mostly having a good time...