Word: adroitness
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...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. For this music-hall documentary, Joan Littlewood uses laughter to hit where it hurts, blending sentimentality, song and satire. An adroit cast led by Victor Spinetti plays the men and women who lived, joked and suffered through World...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. For this music-hall documentary, Joan Littlewood hits where it hurts with laughter by blending sentimentality, song and satire. A marvelously adroit cast, led by Victor Spinetti, plays the men and women who lived, joked and suffered through World...
...loner in the past, Republican Incumbent Edwin L. Mechem, 52, the only four-term Governor in the state's history (1951-54, 1957-58, 1961-62), is playing with Goldwater this year, and he might regret it. Able, four-term Congressman Joseph M. ("Little Joe") Montoya, 49, an adroit vote getter, has a name that is about as common in New Mexico, where nearly one-third of the voters are Spanish Americans, as John Smith is elsewhere. A tossup...
...night before," followed closely by a home-front operatic duo warbling Roses of Picardy. There is a moving hands-across-the-trenches interlude in which German and British troops put down their guns and exchange presents on the war's first Christmas day.* Victor Spinetti, a marvelously adroit actor in a wonderfully adroit cast, contributes the show's stopper as an English sergeant blasting out inept recruits in hilarious British doubletalk...
...driver's seat. The person who does land with solid comic authority in this otherwise tiresome and familiar romp is Actress Schneider, the gemutlich Viennese sex kitten who has purred beguilingly through more pretentious trifles, such as The Victors, The Cardinal and Boccaccio '70. But Lemmon, though adroit as always, is now well along toward proving that the most gifted of farceurs cannot build a really distinguished career simply by explaining, in film after film, why he happens to have on pajamas...