Word: adroitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, the balance of the second act is upset. Anna, commandingly portrayed by Eden Lee Murray, dominates the action through most of the last half of the play, with too much ease. Murray is particularly effective in her adroit modulation between pregnant verbal aggression and ostensibly pleasant urbanity. But the thoroughness with which she overcomes Deeley's attacks leaves us unprepared for Kate's final rejection of Anna...
...Democrats are hopeful that their biggest victory hi the region will come in New York's gubernatorial contest. Congressman Hugh Carey, 55, an old-fashioned liberal given mod appeal by some adroit television ads, is running far ahead of Malcolm Wilson, 60, the earnest but lackluster incumbent who moved up from Lieutenant Governor when Nelson Rockefeller resigned last December. A poll published last month by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, showed Carey leading Wilson by the surprising margin of 52% to 27%. Carey's strong showing has improved the once dismal prospects of his ticketmate: former U.S. Attorney...
...talks between Hegazi and Simon were lively and flexible. Simon never hesitated to break in with questions. When Hegazi was asked at a news conference whether he was happy with the $250 million in U.S. aid requested of Congress for Egypt, he had an adroit answer. If the U.S. could give Israel $2.2 billion in military aid, he said, then surely the same amount in nonmilitary help should be reasonable for Egypt...
Acting to maintain the President's momentum, his aides lashed out at Chairman Peter Rodino and his committee. Patrick Buchanan, Nixon's special consultant and once a wily practitioner of the anonymous news leak, assailed the "nameless, faceless character assassins on the House Judiciary Committee." Another adroit news manipulator, White House Communications Director Ken Clawson, charged that leaks from the committee were part of "a purposeful effort to bring down the President with smoke-filled-room operations by a clique of Nixon-hating partisans." Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren joined the chorus, deploring "prejudicial and one-sided information...
...movie promotion to cloud perceptions or the number of people who find sadism funny has been seriously underestimated. But viewers who bear the title firmly in mind-it means "malice" and is as accurate as they come -may derive a creepy sort of pleasure from Director Samperi's adroit study in perversity...