Word: adeptly
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...comedy is as light as balsa wood, but the key performers are as sol id as oaks. Hyde-White can milk a line till it turns to cream. Almost equally adept are Robert Coote as a jowl-waggling army colonel and Geoffrey Sumner as a member of the landed gen try who regards all birds as fair game...
...thing everybody can agree on is that he is a prankster. He delights in disguising his voice in his frequent phone calls to friends, assuming such identities as a job applicant, a woman, or a doctor reporting a comically grotesque diagnosis of some third party. He is also devastatingly adept at mimicry, something he does not only for laughs. "Actors have to observe," he says. "They have to know how much spit you've got in your mouth and where the weight of your elbows is. I could sit all day in the Optimo Cigar Store telephone booth...
SENATOR SAM ERVIN, 76, a master of constitutional law who heads the powerful Government Operations Committee, is a Democratic battler for individual rights with a blind spot for blacks. The contradiction is in part explained by his North Carolina origins. He is the most adept Senate story spinner since Alben Barkley. Ervin is deeply concerned over the invasion of privacy involved in federal wiretapping. He is a major figure in the fight against Administration attempts to diminish freedom of the press. He is also a leader in the crusade to restore the power of the purse to Congress, an important...
...national Democratic leadership, will be in the forefront of congressional confrontation with the President over the next several years. Considerably sobered by Chappaquiddick in 1969 and his loss of the Senate Whip's job to West Virginia's Robert Byrd in 1971, he is proving a highly adept Senate strategist...
...Schmitt and a giant boulder, Cernan insisted on scrambling up an incline. He also aimed and re-aimed until he was finally able to squeeze into one frame the lunar rover, Schmitt and the startling orange soil that Schmitt had discovered at Shorty Crater. Geologist Schmitt also proved an adept lensman, but as might be expected, he showed more of an eye for lunar rocks than for his fellow astronaut...