Word: adroitness
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TIME, in its impetuous desire to display satirical muscles, neglected to note McCoy's adroit use of symbolism, the uncanny fluency and nearness of his dialogue, and the influence (for good or bad) of Henry Miller upon his writing. I predict that TIME will shortly be forced to eat the cynicism and satire that was so flippantly fired from the side of its mouth...
Perhaps all this pessimism has some connection with the fact that on the day this reporter last spoke to the coach, they had just returned from the speetacle of seeing an adroit Freshman coxswain pilot a load of 150's into a passing sailboat. Somehow, the coaches seemed a bit tired of it all. The Varsity Schedule April 24 Princeton, MIT, and Rutgers at Princeton May 1 Cornell here May 8 Pennsylvania and Navy at Philadelphia May 15 Eastern Intercollegiate Sprint Regatta here June 25 Yale at New London
...excellence of "Naked City" lies not in the enormity or the intrinsic bloodiness of the crimes, but in the adroit juxtaposition of familiar surroundings with unusual events. Of course it is an escape picture, in which the audience is allowed an exciting peep behind a city's facade of respectability, but the treatment, so much better than in most films of this class, counterbalances the natural and inevitable weaknesses...
...down the East Coast, televiewers, many of them seeing their first symphony concert, were stirred by the dynamic old man. And Toscanini, unnaturally docile about it all, was in top form. No less adroit was the photography of Director Hal Keith's three cameras. The television eye followed the music smoothly as it proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat...
There are just enough weak spots in the program, and inexperienced people in the cast, to prevent Make Mine Manhattan from being a wow. The cast as a whole is not terribly adroit, but it has the conceivably greater virtue of being enormously likable...