Word: deftly
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...however, was cluttered with extraneous movement: what should have been an architecture of simplicity was badly in need of discipline and toning. The problem with "When the Street Lights Come On" was slightly different. S.-Wilkerson's work of jazzy music and glowing lights found character in moments of deft energy and crisp form--but large parts of the dance looked arbitrary, playing with a series of beginnings that never grew...
...Shots went awry, missing the backboard, and turnovers annoyingly stalled play. Harvard continually lost sight of Yale's center, Barb Liebowitz, who drove straight up the lane for unmolested lay-ups. Fortunately, Crimson center Lesley Greis and forward Wendy Carles were as productive at the other end, displaying a deft touch from the outside...
...introduce [advanced weapons] into a region." Last week Carter took a more specific step: he placed an $8.6 billion ceiling for 1978 on all weapons transfers to nonallied countries. But the effect of the measure on total U.S. arms exports is questionable. It contains so many loopholes that a deft shuffling of figures will permit an actual increase in sales...
...deft agreement, he concludes, may well become irrelevant: "With good luck, it may be found by grandmother in time to be read aloud at the 50th anniversary dinner." And if not, either partner, or both, can always sue. Naturally, with the help of a good lawyer...
...With a deft snip of the scissors and some decidedly un-frantic clawing at 30-year old wrapping paper, Harley Holden, curator of the University archives, yesterday opened a package containing papers of former Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, all of which apparently relate, as expected, to the Sacco-Vanzetti case...