Word: deft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PERHAPS THE BEST parts of the novel are its action scenes. His style deft and spare, Maspero tells how Cat and Antoine try to steal food stamps one rainy night. Cat drops the stamps in the mud just as the brothers notice that lanterns are approaching, swinging ominously through the dark...
Thanks to several hours of deft negotiations last week, Democrats and Republicans had it both ways. After two months of wrangling over the $1.7 billion antidrug measure, leaders utilized a little-known procedure that allowed the House to approve the bill with the death penalty intact and then send it back to the Senate, where members stripped the provision from the bill. "I don't think anyone's really proud of it," said Representative Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat. "But I don't think they could think of another way to get it out of here...
...nature. Byrne's framing of the actors, like his sense of humor, is just off center and right on target. It gives all the performers (especially Goodman, who becomes tomorrow's star with his endearing turn as Louis) plenty of room to expand their characters from stereotypes into the deft cartoonery of a postmodern Preston Sturges stock company...
Spoken like a regular Thornton Wilder. But then part of Byrne's deft comic talent has always been that he is a quick study. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, Byrne moved with his mother Emma and electrical engineer father Tom first to Hamilton, Ont. (where Sister Celia was born), and then to Baltimore. Young David arrived there at age seven with an already burgeoning interest in music. (His folks say he played his phonograph almost perpetually from age three and took up the harmonica at five...
...really is nice to have an ex-President give us this legacy," says the Chicago Tribune's deft cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, who harpooned Ford relentlessly. MacNelly has a long-hidden confession: "I was the only living cartoonist in Salzburg when Ford fell down the plane ramp. My only thought was 'Gee, I hope he didn't hurt himself.' When I got back to the U.S., every other cartoonist had had a field day. I never did catch...