Word: adroit
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Both parties fully realize that the prolonged economic hardship has been, and still is, the nation's most important political issue. It cost the G.O.P. the 1982 midterm elections, and threatens to make Reagan a one-term President. Yet the White House has been relatively adroit lately in reducing the Democrats' ability to exploit the issue. The bipartisan compromise on Social Security blunted one Democratic attack. Last week House Speaker Tip O'Neill conceded, in a public statement, that Reagan had "kept his promise" to move promptly on a jobs measure. Thus, despite serious reverses and anemic...
...Cabinet more Early American in look and feel than Danish modern, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, 51, was a polished piece of work. An able and politically adroit administrator, Lewis scored points for his decisive handling of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike a year and a half ago and his successful push for the federal gasoline-tax bill passed by Congress last month. But when Lewis outgrew his job, no other seemed soon in the offing. Admitted one top White House staffer: "He's felt underused...
Bech Is Back by John Updike. Henry Bech, an exquisitely blocked author, returns, marries and almost accidentally produces a bestseller in one of Updike's most adroit and lively comic performances...
...distance arrangement, Yol possesses a clarity of imagery and an editorial crispness not evident in Güney's other films. It is dour but never dull; it proceeds with an assurance born of passion and technical expertise. The picture may thus serve as the announcement of an adroit new director in Gören, a canny marshaler of film machinery and actors' resources. But first and final credit must go to Güney. Time spent in the microcosm of a Turkish jail has educated him to the human idiosyncrasies of men under pressure. Each...
...introduced in Congress, where it languished for decades. The modern campaign began in 1967, when a stubborn Paul, then 82, persuaded the National Organization for Women to endorse the amendment. By 1972, partly because of the momentum of the civil rights and antiwar movements and partly because of adroit political maneuvering, particularly by Martha Griffiths, then a Democratic Congresswoman from Michigan, the ERA had been passed by Congress. A seven-year deadline was set for ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures. By the end of 1972, 22 states had passed the amendment, but others followed much more slowly...