Word: deftly
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...epic that opened here last week, was, believe it or not, made by the same production team that turned out Darling two years ago. Producer Joseph Janni, director John Schlesinger, and screenwriter Frederic Raphael marked Darling--in black-and-white--with an economy of action, quick cuts, and some deft, telling punches at society's flabby midsection. The film was also marked by Julie Christie...
...this, Douglas always adds a touch of spice. A deft, breezy interviewer, he pumps a starlet about her rumored romance or quizzes the Rolling Stones about rag-mop hairdos. On another occasion, he startled Guest Hubert Humphrey by casually commenting that "the President says you can make a speech as easily as you take a breath." The Vice President muttered, "Did the President say that?" After a long pause he added: "Then it's true...
Last year Fairchild inherited complete charge of the 76-year-old family company. Since then, combined circulation of its nine trade publications has increased 8%, to 408,000. Fairchild has applied his deft touch to such seemingly charmless journals as Footwear News and Electronic News. The publications are better to look at, easier to read, and less subservient to the industries they cover. The Fairchild Co. has lost $7,000,000 on its two most recently founded journals, Metalworking News and Drug News Weekly, but overall revenues reached $30 million last year...
...Regrets. Mosbacher graduated cum laude from Choate, went on to Dartmouth, where he majored in economics, settled for C's, became known as a deft hand with a bridge deck and dice, and led the varsity sailing club to two straight national intercollegiate championships. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1943, he applied for the Small Craft Training Center in Miami. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia...
...absurd comes close to being a tragedy of the impossible. Author Murray Schisgal's original was a cockeyed but unerringly apt satire of people who make Freud their only poet, whose love talk is all about adjustment, alienation, angst and other pop-psychological cant. But this deft parody has given way to the adolescent vulgarisms of Scriptwriter Elliott Baker, who plots slapstick sequences in a department store and a Japanese restaurant that would be tasteless in a Jerry Lewis movie...