Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oldtime Ellington Saxpots Jimmy Hamilton (tenor), Johnny Hodges (alto) and Harry Carney (baritone) add to the luster. Standouts are Russell Procope's low-register clarinet solo in More and Cootie Williams' soaring trumpet work on Fly Me to the Moon. And binding it all together is the deft piano scrimshaw of Ellington himself...
...involved with the extreme left, but is now considered notably pro-U.S. "Anti-Americanism," he says, "is a disgrace to Socialism and a danger to peace." Healey is thought by some of his colleagues to be too theoretical, but he has made a strong impression abroad with his deft performances at international conferences...
...husband Gomez (John Astin) and Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) are quite sufficiently insane, but one could research the annals of television and not discover the likes of her butler Lurch, who is played by Ted Cassidy, 6 ft. 9 in., 250 Ibs., with a massive, embalmed face and a deft touch on the parlor spinet...
...Court & the Law. From the start, the legal community greeted the book with respect for its deft erudition. Reviewers spotted it as a fascinating account of the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, the obscure Florida convict whose now famous penciled petition to the Supreme Court eventually brought the precedent-shattering decision ruling that any man who cannot pay a lawyer is entitled to court-appointed counsel when on trial, even in state courts, for anything more than a petty offense. This decision brought Gideon a new trial (and his acquittal) and opened the way for new trials for a myriad...
...weaknesses, though Nothing is an engaging try. After a slow start, Bates as the charming man-on-the-make carries the film swiftly along, and Elliot's portrayal of down-at-the-heels gentility is deft and assured. Only the ungenerous will complain that the bite of satire loses out to the geniality of humor...