Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though TIME tries to plan its cover art in advance, breaking news and shifting deadlines can mean that our cover artists have barely a day to do their work. Fortunately, they are assisted in that task by Deputy Art Director Rudy Hoglund, whose deft hand with a preliminary sketch can some times make all the difference. Late last week the magazine's editors were meeting to change the cover story to this week's report on growing opposition to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Hoglund, who was sitting in for vacationing Art Director Walter Bernard, began sketching...
Kramer vs. Kramer is one of those movies that does not come around often. A rare combination of deft acting and a believable story, it draws you in, holds your attention and forces you to become emotionally involved. It was not an easy movie to write or direct, but Robert Benton has succeeded in treading the fine line between washed-out soap opera and documentary. The result is a rare treat--a film that does not preach but makes its point, a film that makes you feel but does not jerk, a film that does not pretend to have...
...Weikl and Bass-Baritone Gabriel Bacquier, Sopranos Margaret Price and Sylvia Sass, London Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti conductor, London; 4 LPs). "Summer lightning made audible" was Shaw's metaphor for this miraculous score, and it serves well to describe Solti's performance-swift, dramatic, deft. The tragic hints in the work are systematically underplayed; the elegant comic surface remains unbroken. Colin Davis' 1974 recording, with its darker moods and more muscular texture, still provides a compelling alternative reading. But the splendid cast and Solti's conducting make this set at least the equal...