Word: adroitness
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Born in Britain, the deceptively mild-looking Porter has a well-deserved reputation as an earthy and adroit negotiator. But he also went to Paris with a special franchise. His predecessors-Averell Harriman, Henry Cabot Lodge, Bruce-all treated the talks seriously, partly because U.S. domestic politics demanded it, and partly because there was still hope that the Communists would negotiate. Porter's quite different mandate is to stop the talks from being used as a Viet Cong soapbox-even if it means being beastly to the Communists...
DEBUSSY: IMAGES, PRÉLUDE À L'APRÈSMIDI D'UN FAUNE (DGG); TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 1-Winter Dreams (DGG). These sumptuous, adroit performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra show that Michael Tilson Thomas is no longer a superb young conductor-just a superb conductor...
...Connally, life has indeed been sweet. Beginning with his hardscrabble boyhood on a Texas farm, he has been irresistibly drawn to wealth and power and has managed, by an adroit mixture of dash and obsequence, to gain both. As Lyndon B. Johnson's Wolsey for more than 30 years and a three-term Democratic Governor of Texas, he learned well the means of acquiring and using political power. Now he is one of the most potent and magnetic personalities in Richard Nixon's Washington, the chief designer of Phase I, the prime enforcer of Phase II, and by most accounts...
Vacant Eyeballs. The composer's champion in the U.S. is Julius Rudel, who has conducted both Rodrigo and Bomarzo as director of the New York City Opera. Now music director of the Kennedy Center as well, he conducted the Cenci, and was uncommonly adroit in defining the multiple layers of orchestral sound with which Ginastera's score seeks to suggest, say, the schizophrenic, as he explores the passions and fears of one of his characters. But that was nothing compared with the multiple-screen images-slides and film of doomed faces, vacant eyeballs, writhing bodies, running women-that...
...them all. The hell with getting someone like Ruby Keeler and Patsy Kelly; they went out and got Keeler and Kelly, plus good old Busby Berkeley to go through his bag of geriatric routines. The show is a collage of ricky-ticky-tacky, but it shines because of the adroit staging of Burt Shevelove and the even more adroit hoofing of Helen Gallagher and Bobby...