Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer Jimmy Breslin, a licensed sentimental tough-guy journalist, startled New York by running in the Democratic primary for the office of president of the city council on Norman Mailer's ticket. Now, running for the office of tough comic novelist, Breslin proves slightly more deft with bullets than he did with ballots...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). The sentimental story of A Man and a Woman (1966), which received an Academy Award thanks to Director Claude Lelouch's deft use of cinematic tricks to compose some of filmdom's most stylish scenes...
...Carneys are a pride of Irish gutter lions, bred to the tooth and claw, who move into the home of the only brother who has tried to flee their world of lacerating animal instinct. The performances are all labors of skill and love, and Arvin Brown's deft direction is full of silent music...
...sudden devaluation of the franc last month won wide admiration as a model of deft financial maneuvering. But its ultimate success depends on the follow-through-whether or not France can curb inflation before the trade ad vantages of a cheaper franc are frittered away in rising prices. Last week, as Frenchmen returned to work after their August holiday, the Pompidou government greeted them with news of austerity to come. Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing announced an at tack on inflation that will employ nearly every fiscal and monetary weapon available to modern governments...
...requirements makes him weave and shake like a drunk. He is not a drunk; alcohol cannot touch the pain or the concentration that balances it. When the pain becomes so demanding that there is no awareness left to walk with, though, Julian stops at a bar. The barman is deft and quick. To a man who has no past or future to dilute its importance, this skill is wonderful. "The economist wanted to give the barman forty pounds," Kennaway writes. "He was carrying more than that. He wanted to shake the banknotes over the bar and let them drop amongst...