Word: deftly
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...flashbacks to the period be fore divorce became legal in Italy-but also marriage itself. The trouble with it, according to Germi, is mostly women. That is the trouble with the movie, too, in a way. It is constructed around a sour, myopic kind of misogyny, not quite deft or witty enough to cut through the un pleasant taste of bile...
...Chiefs will start Joel Goldson and Keith Daly at the guard positions. Goldson, a deft ballhandler, is averaging 17.0 points per game and the 6 ft. 3 in. Daly plays the point for Springfield...
...cast appears uniformly sympathetic to the action, though a lack of attention to details detracts from several performances. (Slouched posture and excessive foot stamping do not contribute to the majesty of the two kings.) Jeremiah Riemer as the rogue Autolycus is a particularly entertaining miscreant and Robert Cohen is deft in the role of a faithful courtier. Other actors's readings are often engaging and effective--Charles Genrich's rustic Clearius and Eleni Constantine's dewy-eyed Perdita add sparkle to the humorous second portion of the play...
...Cliffe has a 23-16 advantage over Jackson at the half, and a comfortable five-point margin at the three-quarter mark. But Jackson's deft foul shooting during the final five minutes sparked the Jumbo women's squad to a last-minute victory...
...part seems smaller than usual as a result and in general this is very much a team production. Its strengths lie in the unpetty pace with which it progresses, in the deft handling of the interludes, especially that of the wonderfully bawdy drunken doorkeeper, who might however try to get his lines out from under his intoxication more cleanly, and in the elaborate staging. The setting is not particularly inspired, but it works, in such scenes as Macbeth's slow progress up the stairs which enclose the stage front to Duncan's chamber, or the massing of figures...