Word: deft
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...slurred as the "kind of lugs who crush walnuts on their heads because it feels good." Said one top U.S diplomat: "It was one of the most damaging things to U.S.-Soviet relations I've seen." But Playboy was pleased. Ron has, says his editor Barry Golson, a "very deft, light style...
Stranded at the eleventh hour without their star, the producers scoured a London actors' directory and picked Denis De Marne to serve as a stand-in for Peter's remaining scenes. After first balking, Schell later dubbed in De Marne's dialogue. The cinematic sleight of hand is deft but damaging: Peter retreats into shadows and long shots for several crucial scenes in the movie's final segment...
Although Alfred Hitchcock Presents has settled for simply remaking old episodes from its earlier incarnation, it seems far fresher and more vital than The Twilight Zone. No supernatural morality plays here; just some deft storytelling and a refreshingly sardonic view of human nature. Hitchcock characters are greedy, vengeful and nasty (Martin Sheen, for instance, as a dissolute, over-the-hill actor who kills a young rival), and good people as well as bad are subject to the capriciousness of fate...
...what exactly is Gardener's "it"? The movie's subtle texture, effortlessly impelled by Gardener's deft editing, reveals that "it" is the sense of death that pervades daily life. Like cinema verite, "it" is based on an oxymoron. Forest of Bliss actually reasserts life by concentrating on the ceremony of dying. Vitality and color, charisma and charm, abound in the visages of the living inhabitants, most notably the fire seller, whose joie de vivre consumes the screen. And this juxtaposition of life with death necessitates audience observation, not verbal explanation...
...With the deft touch of political prestidigitators, Italian party leaders last week made a government crisis disappear as if it had never happened. Two weeks after Prime Minister Bettino Craxi had marched up Rome's Quirinal Hill to present his resignation to Italy's President Francesco Cossiga over his handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking, Craxi returned to reclaim his place as leader of his five-party ruling coalition. The President and the four other coalition partners decided to consider Craxi's resignation provisional, thereby allowing the same government with the same policies to continue. After an expected vote...