Word: deftly
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...solid gags in Frank Oz's deft direction of Paul Rudnick's pointed script, the biggest one is that it's not just Howard who seems gay. So do the teachers, the town barber, Howard's stolid brother. And what exactly is the gay style in a time when bullying machismo rules on the street and on the screen? It is to be pleasant, considerate, gently witty--virtues once celebrated in American life and Hollywood comedies...
...most memorable characters of the entire show, however, has to be Neale's Lulu. Although Lulu herself spends most of the play looking forlorn in the background of the stage, her few lines--a deft mixture of church-revival-type monologues and cute childish comments--almost speak for themselves. The strength and sweet simplicity Neale lends to the character make one almost believe that this over-sexed, yet helpless-looking character may very well save everyone in the show...
...politician as deft as Clinton should know that Americans are suckers for a sincere apology. I'm surprised that some self-help huckster hasn't written Apologizing Your Way to the Top. As Murray riffs in A Thousand Clowns, "If you went up to people on the street and offered them money, they'd refuse it. But everybody accepts apology immediately. It's the most negotiable currency." But Gresham's law also applies here: Debased sentiments drive out genuine remorse...
Race is indeed an area in which just talking can accomplish something. Civil rights leaders say Clinton's greatest achievement on race was the 1995 affirmative-action speech in which he vowed to "mend it, not end it," articulating a deft consensus where it seemed none was possible. But when toughness is called for, the President has more often than not disappointed them. "On this issue he does not come into the bully pulpit with much moral authority," complains black author and activist Roger Wilkins...
...classical Spanish guitarist who redesigned his beloved instrument, adding four strings, to accommodate his technical prowess; of cancer; in Murcia, Spain. Fans took to Yepes' theme song to Rene Clement's Forbidden Games (1951), but his peers never accepted his 10-stringed fingerboard--despite the enhanced resonance under his deft touch...