Word: deft
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...huge cast of good actors, James Woods stands out as steely Bob Haldeman, and Joan Allen suggests in deft brush strokes a Pat Nixon condemned to stand by her ungiving man. Hopkins, though, is a failure. He finds neither the timber of Nixon's plummy baritone, with its wonderfully false attempts at intimacy, nor the stature of a career climber who, with raw hands, scaled the mountain and was still not high or big enough...
...gamesmanship led him to the New York Times. His first job: correspondent during the London blitz. He went on to win a Pulitzer chronicling the birth of the U.N. and, in 1953, became the paper's Washington bureau chief. As a thrice-weekly columnist, he gained fame for his deft prose, solid reporting and enviable access, but the latter often came at a price. In 1961, at President John F. Kennedy's request, he withheld what he knew of plans involving an obscure Cuban inlet called the Bay of Pigs. Reston later helped nurture the Times's op-ed page...
Displaying deft stick work. Holmes decked Konte and slipped the puck into the net to give Harvard a 2-0 lead...
...these group numbers, when the music is loud and the energy high, that the musical is most successful. The mambo contest in the dance hall is wonderful from the first syncopated shout. The extended pursuit of Jets by Sharks, and vice versa, which opens the musical is deft and witty. It is tribute enough to the dancers' skills that twelve people can have an elaborately choreographed brawl on the Agassiz's cramped stage without seeming awkward; credit for this must also go to the choreographer, Isabel Legarda, who assimilates Jerome Robbins without duplicating him. The production reaches its height...
...last month she and quite a few other seasoned showstoppers were in a theater two blocks from Times Square as part of the seventh annual Festival of New Musicals. Five shows, in 55-minute concert versions, were staged by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre under the deft stewardship of Joseph McConnell. The Alliance serves 83 regional theater and light-opera companies, from mammoth (the 11,059-seat St. Louis Muny) to mini (the 104-seat Village Theatre, in Issaquah, Washington), all of them searching for that vanishing species, the Broadway-style musical...