Word: adroitness
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...Oscar, but neither is the sort to grump for long if someone else gets it.* For one thing, they keep too busy to think about prizes and such. In Manhattan, Lynn gets a thorough workout eight times a week in Black Comedy. Her role calls for some adroit tricks, since the action takes place in a house where the light fuse has blown. To let the audience see what is happening, the stage lights are actually turned on, and the performers have to act as though they are in the dark. Lynn's butter-legged climb up and down...
...course, the bachelor unexpectedly shows up during the blackout, and one of the flit-and-run sight gags of the evening is Crawford's desperately adroit and maladroit effort to sneak the antiques back to the rightful owner's flat. By the time that Crawford's mistress (Geraldine Page) makes her unseen appearance, it is clear that British Playwright Shaffer has skimmed the most risibility from invisibility since the old Topper films...
...World War II. Moreover, the author nearly scuttles his story whenever his captain heads for shore, particularly in one farfetched episode in which Martinus beds down with the wife of a dead shipmate. But De Hartog's descriptions of prowling U-boats and fear-swept sea combat are adroit and chilling, as vivid as Very-lights on a starless night...
Hart conceded that there is nothing wrong with slanting so long as "everyone is free to take a different slant." An adroit politician is "constantly working up ploys to make himself look a little better than he really is. Most of these ploys, incidentally, are successful." Hart gave an example from personal experience in the Senate: "A Michigan reporter in Washington wrote a piece that carried the headline HART EMERGING AS A LEADER IN THE SENATE, which...
...first by occupation zones, then by the Iron Curtain. His Christian Democratic Union split the Center, encouraged Protestant and peasant membership, and in 1949 edged out the older, better organized Socialist Party of Kurt Schumacher to win Germany's first free election in a generation. Then began the adroit maneuvering that brought Germany into NATO and won back the Saar coal and steel complex that France had taken. In 1953, he made his first trip to the U.S. and stood at attention in Arlington Cemetery while an American military band played Deutschland fiber Alles...