Word: deft
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...Innocent may be remembered not only as deft, taut fiction, but also as the book that showed the way out of the quagmire of glasnost. Ian McEwan, a British novelist who is a breathtaking master of nasty fiction (The Cement Garden), as well as a few sentimental excursions (The Child in Time), has written a blueprint for the future of the genre. The key is not in nostalgia, evoking the bleak era when real men wore raincoats, but in the brisk assumption of a '90s vantage point, leaving the author free to make all kinds of moral and social comments...
...second act, which opens with the cast among the audience, makes a deft transition with "Night Waltz" to the more somber songs that comprise most of the remaining numbers...
...submaster Sean Connery in the toy-boat saga The Hunt for Red October, which opened this month to record-breaking business. In next month's Miami Blues, a mammothly entertaining rogue comedy, he is a psychotic but likable ex-con. This week, off-Broadway, he opens in Craig Lucas' deft and delectable romantic fantasy Prelude to a Kiss, playing a love-struck guy whose bride's personality is stolen on their wedding...
...that money begins to look like a canny investment. There has always been a healthy market for doomed romance. Furthermore, this novel plays upon a current preoccupation -- explicitly stated in its title -- without raising the troubling specter of AIDS. Finally, Leimbach, 26, proves herself to be both a deft writer and a shrewd judge of just how much sentimentality her traffic will bear...
...well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind proved a disadvantage: it imposed unreasonable expectations and, for some spectators, turned what would have been a pleasant surprise into mild disappointment that its author is merely a deft % entertainer, not another Tennessee Williams...