Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the time comes to put the paper to bed and bring down the final curtain, an adroit cast and the briskly coordinated timing of Director Harold Kennedy have stirred up such breezy merriment that the audience may well feel sorry that it has to go home...
...story is from the legend of Orpheus. Nicholas Urfe (Michael Caine), an overread, underbred London dropout, accepts a teaching job on a Greek island. In Caine's adroit impersonation, Urfe explores sensuality from Alfie to Zeta, but along the way he stumbles into a labyrinthine underworld presided over by an occult genius-The Magus. His journey begins one day when he finds a book of poems open to the lines from Little Gidding. They are to become the theme of his life...
...Leoni has cut so many ribbons inaugurating public works during the campaign that opponents claim he keeps a pair of scissors in his pocket. Leoni cannot constitutionally succeed himself, but his appearances aid Acción Democrática's candidate. He is Gonzalo Barrios, 65, an adroit and tough politician who, as Interior Minister, put down Venezuela's Castroite rebels...
Nixon is apt to be a shrewder and more adroit diplomat-in-chief than Humphrey, whose impetuosity and trustfulness could prove to be serious liabilities. Humphrey often seems too ready to believe the last person he has talked to and too easily impressed by foreign leaders. Though Nixon has never been particularly popular among America's allies (or foes), he would be cooler, more concerned with basic geopolitics than with the feeling of the moment...
...applying for a job, not doing an interview. I'm just a normal college graduate wanting into the manistream.... Well, nothing's going to happen and you're not going to get any good copy. He's not going to get himself into any trouble; he's adroit, like a politician...