Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enlisted such talents as the American Ballet Theater and Mimes Robert Shields and Lorene Yarnell to act out his messages. One of the most elaborate of the spots, the tale of a misunderstood elephant, combines cartoon animation, costumed frolicking by the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and a clever voice-over (see box). In another, the A.B.T. dances out the story of a squirrel who was good at finding nuts...
Brzezinski got burned by refusing to be interviewed. More intriguing is why public figures consent to see reporters famous for making their subjects look bad. Are they challenged by thinking they're clever enough to be an exception? "The stupidest thing" he did, Kissinger has said, was the 1972 interview he gave Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, attributing his popularity to his being "the cowboy who rides all alone into the town ... and does everything by himself." Fallaci, tough and intelligent, is the best interviewer around, if interviews are judged (as journalists usually judge them) not by whether the subject...
...drive away any Steve Martin fans, but neither is it likely to convert many unbelievers. Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin. The basic idea is clever: Martin is cast as the loving, beloved adopted son of a family of black sharecroppers. He is dumb as cow-flop and hopeless at foot shufflin' and finger snappin', but he tries hard. When he is ready to go out into the big world and his black mother...
Imagine an instant replay-not in slow motion, but in reverse. That is what Harold Pinter has done in depicting an adulterous love affair. It is over in the first of nine scenes, and it begins just before the curtain drops. This is a clever conceit. Pinter, as we have much past reason to know, cannot write a wrong line-or a dull pause. The key actors, Raul Julia, Blythe Banner and Roy Scheider, are marvels of professional finesse, and Peter Hall's direction is ticktock perfect in its precision...