Word: adroit
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Faced with one of the gravest challenges in his 19-year rule, Marcos, ever the adroit tactician, moved quickly to cut his losses. He began by treating Agrava's minority report as if it were the only finding of the board and promptly turned the milder version over to the Ministry of Justice. Then, seizing the moment between the announcements of the two reports, Marcos appeared on television to address the country. He urged that the case be settled "without letting a day pass." Already the seven men implicated by Agrava had, he explained, been suspended from duty...
...against a West German team that gave the U.S. its closest thing to a scare, losing by only 78-67. Two better-known players, Ewing and 6-ft. 9-in. Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma, at first spent a lot of time on the bench because they were not adroit enough at defense to please Knight, whose Indiana teams have won six Big Ten titles and two N.C.A.A. championships with smothering man-to-man play. Indeed, the coach's favorite player was Jordan's less glamorous North Carolina Teammate Sam Perkins, whose hustling style prompted Knight...
...weary. A typical snatch of McKay's sometimes repetitive prose: "This could be a historic night in the history of men's gymnastics." Among his potential successors, Jim Lampley comes across as better informed and shrewder than he was at Sarajevo, but the most natural and adroit performer is Kathleen Sullivan, who appears headed for a major news anchor slot. ABC's worst efforts include Ray Gandolf's report on buying breakfast at a trendy Los Angeles beanery (he had three frankfurters) and former U.S. Olympic Hockey Captain Mike Eruzione's burbling about how much...
...Ladd Co.: "We thought Leone's original was a wonderful picture. But the response to the first preview caused us to rethink the situation. Besides, at 3 hr. 45 min., theaters would be limited to just one show a night." As it happens, Staenberg performed an adroit, sympathetic salvage job, but to little box-office effect. The shortened America opened the same day as Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and in the first week, as the starship Enterprise was beaming up $25.2 million, America Leone earned only $3.2 million...
...buried in this galaxy, and always hustles back to that lode of entertaining verities that have for so long sustained Star Trek. It features as ghastly a group of interstellar pirates, the Klingons, as ever entered the star log, plus a spectacularly self-destructive planet and plenty of technically adroit and sometimes witty special effects. These are classic directorial occasions, and Nimoy rises to them with fervor, in effect beaming his film up onto a higher pictorial plane than either of its predecessors. One might not want to have the Enterprise crew take up permanent residence on that sober...