Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THESE FEW MOMENTS of stage magic point up the emotional barreness of the script. The songs--cynical, angry, haunting--exist in a vacuum, unsupported by any undercurrents in the production. Technically faultless as Jones' staging is, his deft exploitation of Happy End's humor exaggerates the banality of the plot...
...Celtics got both in Larry Bird. One of the finest shooters since Jerry West, Bird, 23, came from Indiana State with an equally high reputation for the shots he did not take, preferring to give up the ball with deft passes to open teammates. Auerbach made Bird the Celtics' No. 1 draft choice after his junior year. The wait, and Bird's reported $650,000-a-year salary, have proved worth...
...known to rivals as "mysterious Michele" for his deft behind-the-scenes maneuvers. Son of a Sicilian farm worker, Michele Sindona, 59, worked his way up to become the legal and financial adviser to important Italian companies, the Vatican and, some say, the Mafia. Creating his own holding company, he amassed a $450 million fortune. In 1972 Sindona purchased controlling interest in Long Island's Franklin National Bank, the 20th largest in the U.S. Two years later, Franklin National collapsed, the biggest bank failure in U.S. history, and the Government blamed mysterious Michele...
...problems, has the power of incumbency. As President, he can react to challenges by changing the direction of the whole Government, which he has done recently by attempting to balance the budget in the coming fiscal year, a course urged by all Republican candidates. Carter is an undeniably deft-and extremely lucky-politician. He also is a relatively known quantity in the White House, whereas the inexperienced Reagan would require a definite leap of faith by voters supporting him. Says Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti: "There's a variation on the old clich...
...holiday with his wife and teen-age daughter, dubbed Saigon because it was her timely birth that kept the attorney from being sent there. Kennedy is a variegated yarn of third-rate perpetrators, second-class citizens and first-person encounters. But it works. Under the author's increasingly deft touch, events blend like coffee and Irish whisky, and conversations ring as true as coins on a mahogany...