Word: adroitness
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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...
...best when he leaves Washington and its bedeviling problems far behind and jets round the globe. Long ago, he called foreign policy his "strong suit" and the high points of his presidency have consisted of opening new and promising chapters in U.S. relations with old enemies. Never a particularly adroit campaigner at home, he has been boffo in such distant places as Peking, Moscow and Bucharest. Thus it is completely in character that the President this week is beginning a pellmell, week-long tour of five Middle East countries, with the hope of cementing friendships in a strategic region that...
...which is more muted than it might have been without the efforts of Slide and Tanner. It also winds up as a small but authentic surprise gift for audiences. Miss Hawn's performance is rather too obviously calculated, but her male co-stars-Atherton, Sacks and Johnson-are adroit throwaway artists. The script neatly balances action, suspense and soft-spoken humor. Best of all, 26-year-old Director Steven Spielberg, in his first feature after a promising start in TV, emerges as a man to watch. It is easy to patronize and satirize simple, down-homish material, even easier...
Bumpers, 48, scarcely represents a radical alternative to 68-year-old Fulbright. Both are moderate progressives in a Southern context. An adroit, crowd-pleasing campaigner, Bumpers exploed into Arkansas politics by running against Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller in 1970 and burying him in a landslide. In the statehouse, the former small-town lawyer proved to be an adept administrator. He reorganized the government, improved educational and medical facilities, and lured more industry into the state. But after two terms as the nation's lowest paid Governor ($10,000 a year), he became bored with the job and anxious...