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Capote dramatizes his conversation with elaborate hand gestures. He has a deft trick of touching his tongue, presumably for loose tobacco ("I never smoke those filter-tips; nothing comes through"), and then touching his fingers lightly on a napkin in his lap. He has a high nervous laugh when excited about something, and postures his head in a series of attentive or thoughtful attitudes...
...deft, but you lack...
THEATER On Broadway The Pleasure of His Company. Suave drawing-room comedy with a deft Cyril Ritchard as a playboy prodigal father who turns up for his daughter's wedding and turns everything around him upside down. With Cornelia Otis Skinner...
Crimson outside left Larry Ekpebu excited the crowd, if not the Tufts fullbacks, with his deft dribbling while Khan also played a good game and delighted the numerous photographers by scoring a fine goal on a rebound. The last varsity goal came late in the final period...
Sporting Life has long tolerated a screwball tradition. Best-known character in its raffish staff of olden days was its longtime (1925-37) editor, a retired army captain named Chris Towler. From writing for a dog magazine, Towler learned a deft touch with copy, prodded staffers into developing a brisk, racy style. But he gambled heavily and badly, often forced his reporters to open accounts at banks where he was overdrawn in order to get a supply of blank checks...