Word: deft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressman who battles evil politicians and braves a confrontation with militarists. "There's no doubt that it's worth putting more time into the manuscript," says Lindsay's agent, Owen Laster, who is showing the book to New York publishers. Evidently the ex-mayor has a deft touch when it comes to mixing passion and politics. "There's a nice massage scene," reports one reader of Lindsay's draft...
...cannot refuse in the circumstances. Ventura's run-which includes trying to capture a Russian spy (who is also a well-known symphonic conductor), whom the fugitive needs as bait for a deal with his former masters-forms the substance of a movie that is at once deft and thoughtprovoking...
This has been all to the advantage of the monocled and aloof interim President. Spinola, relaxing for the past few weeks in a thermal resort north of Lisbon, has managed to play a deft political game via long distance. His primary bid has been for greater presidential powers, including the dismantlement of the A.F.M. and a declaration of a state of siege to deal with economic problems...
...situation allows Freeling to display a talent for domestic dialogue. In several deft scenes he explores the problem of feminine achievement and male pride in a country where marriage has usually been seen as a grueling lifetime game of mixed doubles...
...pregnant Mae, Joan Pape has a more authentic accent than Maggie, but she is not nearly vicious and venomous enough. Charles Siebert's cigar-smoking Gooper is adequate. This couple is not up to the Madeleine Sherwood and Pat Hingle of 1955. Wyman Pendleton's Reverend Tooker is a deft sketch; and William Larsen has the unrewarding role of Doctor Baugh, who, like a messenger in Greek drama, is on hand merely as the bearer of bad tidings. The children and servants perform their bits admirably...