Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this pair of rookies, the comment seemed particularly appropriate; they are what coaches call "thinking" ballplayers: precise, poised, clever. And there's a little natural dazzle thrown in too, enough so that both were recruited doggedly by major basketball powers before choosing Harvard...
...accent do nothing to correct. The gofer under verbal assault is Megan Carter, and it is her misfortune to be the sort of newspaperperson who believes in first impressions-and second and third ones, when she is led from one to the next by an overly ambitious and overly clever federal task force investigating organized crime...
...Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967): "Spence was a magic actor, funny and quick." Gary Grant (Sylvia Scarlett, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story): "He was great fun. He had a wonderful sense of comedy." John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn): "He wasn't as clever as Spence, but a brilliant actor nonetheless, bigger than life in his performance?and often when he didn't have to be." Peter O'Toole (The Lion in Winter): "He can do anything. A bit cuckoo, but sweet and terribly funny." Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen): "Bogart was like Fonda?proud and happy...
...snappy and clever cast does do what House drama should and does do best: not try to present deep and thought-provoking drama, but to richly entertain. Going to Scandal is like going to Great Adventure on the Fourth of July and stopping to watch the fireworks on the way home...
...tune don't have to be clever...