Word: adroit
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Associate Editor Kurt Andersen, who wrote the story, accompanied Witteman for an interview with Iacocca at Chrysler's New York City offices, and in Detroit watched an adroit Iacocca performance before a group of securities analysts. "He is a marvelous pitchman," says Andersen. "Most politicians and business figures are chronically guarded. I was surprised to find a company chairman talking a mile a minute, saying remarkable things, and never placing anything off the record." That alone would be enough to make him a journalist's delight...
rapid rise through party ranks suggests an adroit politician who has been able to advance under leaders as different in style as Brezhnev and Andropov...
Both sides were adroit enough at small talk to placate the headline-hungry press. In a lively, candid meeting with reporters before the first session, Karpov acknowledged that Mikhail Gorbachev was demonstrating leadership even before Chernenko died. Said Karpov: "He presided over the meeting of the Politburo that approved (my) instructions." Karpov ducked, however, a follow- up question on whether Chernenko had been expected to remain alive throughout | the talks. The Soviets ushered photographers gracefully into and out of the opening of their session. The U.S., by contrast, herded cameramen out with a loud countdown of "five . . . four . . . three...
Dole, 61, a tall, lean man with a ready grin, spent eight years in the House before winning a Senate seat in 1968. He has a reputation as an adroit legislative craftsman and a fierce competitor. His biting wit is legendary, but the vituperative remarks that earned him the "hatchet man" label as Gerald Ford's 1976 running mate are rare now. More typical is the comment he made last week when his wife presented him with a congratulatory schnauzer named Leader. Deadpanned Dole: "It's an indication of where my leadership is going. Housebroken but not Senate...
...Hoffman's large cast and its machinations remain credible and, even in the comic passages, are never overdrawn. But the author is more than an adroit tale spinner; it is character, not accident or circumstance, that brings his central figures to grief. In the process, he merges Chicago myth, legend and history with poignant private truth. This journalist, at least, had not only a novel but a genuine novelist...