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...Vatican, but from then on moved through an extremely taxing schedule with grace, affability and aplomb. He read his big set speeches to members of the British Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like the crude, hip-shooting nuclear cowboy so often drawn by European caricaturists...
...erotic, and it earned him the festival's special 35th-anniversary citation. The screenplay prize went to Skoli-mowski for Moonlighting, about four Poles in London building a new home for their boss back in Poland. With the help of Jeremy Irons as the foreman, Moonlighting proved how deft and poignant a Polish joke could be. Godard's film, Passion, turned out to have everything but. It focused on living tableaux of old paintings as the cast members of an imaginary film agitated for Polish Solidarity...
...President's call last week for a constitutional amendment to allow voluntary prayer in public schools was both a deft expression of support for a New Right cause that seems to have broad public appeal and an effective maneuver to defuse this potentially explosive issue. Even as the New Right was basking in the warmth of Reagan's Rose Garden homily on the virtues of prayer in schools, the Justice Department advised the Senate that a pending bill to override the 1962 Supreme Court decision banning such prayer was probably unconstitutional. Presidential support for a prayer amendment will...
Premier Chou En-lai was electric, Premier Chou En-lai was electric, quick, taut, deft, humorous. In the 19 months since we had come to know each other, he and I had developed an easy camaraderie not untinged with affection. During my visit in February 1973, I said to him: "I think that the Premier notices that I am especially inhibited in his presence right...
...handling is deft-by turns serious and piquant. Concerned that his years of "erotic acrobatics" are drawing to a close, the silver-maned Sears reflects: "When in the movies he saw a man and woman kiss ardently he would wonder if this was a country tomorrow or the day after he would be expected to leave." Then, a mere few weeks later. Sears finds himself leaving for work in the morning--he is a computer company executive--without his boxer shorts for the sake of reaching nakedness in record time for an afternoon frolic. On another occasion Sears ruminates...