Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most enigmatic, even when, finally, she appalls. But the highest praise must go to Writer-Director Gabor. His wonderfully searching eye brings alive all sorts of difficult scenes-awful school social events, boring classroom discussions, dormitory gossip sessions-grants them a waywardness and a resonance that are rare. The deft economy with which he characterizes his heroine's classmates, preventing them from being mere types, is admirable. Strange and distant though his milieu is, it makes a rewarding and instructive place to visit...
There's a reason why Lynn Swann is so deft when he dodges downfield as a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Swann's way was honed in dance studios, where he spent 14 years learning moves. He displays his skill on Omnibus, the 1950s magazine-format show that ABC is reviving this spring. In one segment, with Hoofer Gene Kelly beating time, Swann joins Choreographer Twyla Tharp and Ballet Star Peter Martins in a Tharp dance about a wide receiver. Said Swann after his off-the-field patterns: "My thighs hurt...
...cannot help admiring Brickman's comic discipline, his refusal to make heavyhanded attacks. He is a car om-shot artist, deft and softspoken, and an actor's director as well. Arkin comes closer than ever before to breaking through the reserve that sometimes straitjackets his unquestionable comic technique. Judy Graubart is winning as his realistic girlfriend. The guys at the lab- Austin Pendleton, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright and Jayant-manage to satirize every imaginable form of intellectual hubris. Their cause is a worthy one, and so is their director's debut...
Kennedy has also made gains by attacking the administration's performance on domestic issues. Without Carter on the stump--justifying and explaining why the inflation he has promised to bring down since 1976 continues to rise--staffers have had to rely on White House representatives and a deft combination of sidestepping and counter-punching. "We can only point out what they (the administration) are doing about inflation and energy and that they are long term problems. We also point out that the programs Senator Kennedy has proposed are unrealistic and actually fuel inflation," says Woodward. More specifically, the Carter people...
...that the government tapped phones, bugged hotel rooms and even monitored diplomatic communications of delegates to last fall's Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe Rhodesia; this surveillance, he contended, was "authorized directly" by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who won wide acclaim for his deft performance as conference chairman. Though all delegations were monitored, Campbell wrote, particular attention was paid to Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; Rhodesian security personnel were even employed to interpret African languages and dialects. Campbell further claimed that U.S. agents had bugged "critical meetings" attended...