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...musical. Unfortunately for Producer Ray Stark, the movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance: Annie is set in 1933; Camille was released in 1937.) In an adroit 4½-minute condensation, the tragic story of Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture. For a production that means to bring children back to the movies, dragging their parents...
Viewpoint has been notable for its mingling of adroit self-defense by correspondents with an occasional apology or admission of error. The self-questioning tone fits ABC'S goals, which include public relations as well as journalistic innovation. Indeed, confession has been good not just for the soul but for the ratings; the sporadic 90-minute show, which starts in the late-night slot of ABC News' Nightline, has attracted somewhat more viewers than Nightline does...
Stepping into that political quicksand, the adroit Senate Majority Leader is attempting a most difficult feat. Baker is deftly challenging the economic beliefs of a President from his own party, while trying to preserve party unity. After leading Senate Republicans into solid support of Reagan's budget and tax policies last year, he is backing their resistance this year but trying to channel it to achieve a constructive compromise with the President. All the while, Baker is struggling to prevent chaotic fragmentation in a Congress in which undisciplined procedures and election-year insecurities work strongly against cooperative action on behalf...
Gerald Gutierrez's adroit direction prevents the basic plot-line of a jockey's love for an heiress from ever dragging. He adds dimensions to the characters, allowing them to transcend their early 1900s conventions. Goldie Gates, the madcap heiress from San Francisco (Maureen Brennan), trails her love, Johnny Jones (Donny Osmond), across a continent and an ocean, not out of subservience, but from a need to fulfill her own desires. She appears to us as assertive intelligent, and independent...
BOTH IN DOMESTIC and in international affairs, then, this administration provides a vexing problem for its opportunism of method with seeming consistency of aim. Reagan has thus far stuck to his guns and has dispelled many doubts with his adroit sense of humor. He remains, in most respects the same politician who appealed to the Republican convention to bow its collective head in prayer, and his policies will require an extraordinary and unlikely collective act of faith. The Democrats and the media, however, have been unable to expose the crudeness of Reagan's means or the injustice of his ends...