Word: deft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insists that "I would do it again if the identical situation arose." But his friends wonder. Under the week's pressures, Kreisky has lost his cool and become noticeably irritable. He is usually a deft performer at press conferences, but last week he blew up when a Dutch journalist asked him, "Are you a Jew?" The testy Chancellor flared back: "It's none of your business...
...Carats is a brazenly ugly film in the way only Hollywood studio products can be when they try to look stylish. Miss Ullmann is deft and charming despite it all. When she kisses Albert goodbye the morning after their beach idyll, she brushes her lips close to his face in a moment of quiet poignancy; later, when she describes Albert and defends their relationship, she speaks with glee and the pride of a woman feeling a kind of renewal...
Their sorrows (and joys) are the stuff of this factually sound, stark, deft novel. A sequel to Author Ruesch's widely praised Top of the World (1950), it traces the adventures of Papik and his wife Vivi. Their lives are as simple and stylized as an ivory snow knife. She chews hides and sews them into waterproof clothes. He hunts, knowing how to convince the wary seal that he is also a seal until he spears it. Together, they try to have a son-another provider. Girls are of no use; the parents stuff their first-born daughter...
...poem also remains a testament to Gardner's virtuoso technique, his deft control of the cumbersome epic. Take, for example, his handling of the narrative point of view, his own relationship as writer to his story. The first person narrator is cast into an epic-dream, brought to Corinth by the gods to record for posterity the sad details of Jason's split from Medeia. While this anonymous poet is only a neutral observer, he tries desperately to alter the course of events by reconciling the couple. Only Medeia can see him, and she thinks he's a devil. Gardner...
...Director Sarafian and a rather fetching performance by Sarah Miles, less mannered than her recent appearance in The Hireling (TIME, July 9). Burt Reynolds is best of all. His is a silly, thankless part, but he plays it smoothly, with a strong undercurrent of ironic humor. He is a deft and winning actor, and it would be good to see him again in something like Deliverance, in a part that challenged his abilities rather than pampered them...