Word: deft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fledged wry and sardonic wit and irony. In one concise scene, Kubrick quickly establishes Humbert's desirability to both of his women when the three of them see a horror movie and the mother and daughter each grip his hand in fright. Presaging what is to follow in one deft move, Humbert extricates his left hand from the older Mrs. Haze's clutch and places it on top of Lolita's hand...
...deft launch of health care gave him a boost...
...MacNicol (Sophie's Choice), seems irredeemably phony. That results partly from the writing -- he plays a big-time liar in the first piece, a sculptor equally duplicitous in work and love in the second -- and partly from unconvincing accents and tatty wigs. The big problem is that MacNicol, normally deft and winsome, fails to muster charm. The plays see life through these men's eyes and effectively excuse their sins. MacNicol's romantic devastation in the opening piece suggests peevishness, not agony. His utter ruin in the second piece is so shallowly felt that it arouses far less sympathy than...
...have helped make China a new force in world cinema. Check out Hard Target, as millions of teenage boys already have. The director of this martial-arts pummeler is Hong Kong's John Woo -- the first director from Chinese-language cinema to make a Hollywood picture. With its deft skullcrackery and its breathless chase scenes, Hard Target is The Kung- Fugitive...
Richard Riordan has never met Ross Perot. His New York-edged voice sounds nothing like a Texas drawl. And where he resides, among the mansions of Brentwood, they think "clean out the barn" must be a line from a Beverly Hillbillies rerun. Still, when a deft Los Angeles Times cartoonist drew him with jug ears and labeled him "H. Ross Riordan," the subject of the caricature recalls with a smile, he was not only amused but flattered: "I felt I'd arrived...