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...they didn't say 'blast off.' " At the same session, Kampelman gestured to photographers and said to Karpov, "Maybe we should shake hands," then leaned across the table to do so. Added Kampelman: "They're working people. We have to sympathize." Still, it was Karpov who got off the deftest line, one that went to the heart of the basic political question underlying all the ceremony. Asked by a reporter whether he felt affected by working in the room where SALT II was hammered out, Karpov replied that if both sides are cooperating to reach an agreement, they could...
...that his radiance will attract every eye. He must be a wily mendicant for the audience's attention, making up in craft what he lacks in glamour. He cannot just play a scene; he has to steal it. In a decade at the R.S.C., Kingsley proved himself the deftest of second-story...
...years before the old generals could purge and remold the party. By 1978 they had brought back from disgrace Deng Xiaoping, the deftest politician among them. At the end of 1978, the reorganized Central Committee, under Deng, had repudiated the economics of the Cultural Revolution and ordered reforms. It took two more years to bring to trial and convict the Gang of Four; and in 1981 the Central Committee adopted the official confession of Communist error. It was another year before they elected, in 1982, a new Zhongyang and adopted a new constitution, the fourth since Liberation. So there...
...rest room--and nearly crushes a fellow passenger when he emerges. In a London hotel, he engages a clerk in a typically baffling conversation--and the misunderstandings caused by his mangled Franglais eventually lead to the partial collapse of the hotel. Sellers pulls off all this slapstick with the deftest of touches--his Clouseau never senses just how much damage he has left in his wake...
...Even the deftest of writers might be excused for a little nervous clearing of the throat, perspiration on the palms and other involuntary manifestations of the trembles at the assignment: a cover story on Russell Baker, the humor columnist who writes so deftly himself that he won this year's Pulitzer Prize for commentary. But Contributor John Skow did not flinch. Says Skow: "I've followed Baker's column since he started it 17 years ago. You can tell merely by reading him that he's a very approachable...