Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAKEPEACE EXPERIMENT, by Abram Tertz. The pseudonymous author, a Russian satirist who has smuggled out four previous novels, writes a deft parable in which Communist bosses are likened to a village bicycle mechanic who learns to control people with "mental magnetism." With his new powers, the mechanic makes the village government "wither away," with disastrously funny results...
Director Elio Petri is deft and stylish with an escapade between a svelte, sexually inhibited matron (Claire Bloom) and an ardent industrialist (Charles Aznavour). After chasing around the tycoon's sumptuous beach house, the lady reveals that her whim for today is rough stuff in a sleazy motel room-a touch of aberration that is clue to a conventional surprise ending. In the last episode, Modern People, directed with rich detail and folksy color by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), a cheese dealer (Ugo Tognazzi) offers his wife to a creditor in payment of his gambling losses...
...DeBakey speaks with singular authority. Since 1948, the dexterous scalpel and deft needle of Baylor University's professor of surgery have operated on more than 10,000 human hearts and arteries. From the far corners of the earth the great and the humble have traveled to Texas to have Surgeon DeBakey patch up their arteries with Dacron or implant artificial valves of plastic and sophisticated alloys in their hearts...
...with every reason. As Britain's first Socialist head of government in 13 years, Wilson from the beginning has acted like a man with an overwhelming mandate instead of the narrow four-vote majority with which he squeaked into office last October. At home, he has proved deft and effective in managing the balance-of-payments crisis that nearly shipwrecked the pound. Tough as any Tory, he slapped higher taxes and fees on those workingman staples toddy, tobacco and the telly, and the rank and file scarcely noticed, so busy were they applauding his simultaneous thwack on the expense...
...treasures against landed wealth. Rich plumbers dispossess the gentry on art-museum boards. Such propositions tickle Baird, an art insider, who deserted a gilt-framed career (New York's Frick Collection, Washington's National Gallery of Art) in favor of novel writing. Baird wields a deft brush to capture art's comic possibilities, but he wastes his brush strokes on a canvas of postage-stamp size...