Word: deftly
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...filming of exactly three shots in an indie movie. "Everything goes hilariously wrong," chuckles Corliss. The boom mike dips into the frame. The idiot movie star unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist -- "imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman." It's a funny film, acted with a deft, manic touch...
...years on staff. His initiation took place a lot earlier. The son of the editor of a small-town newspaper (the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Intelligencer Journal), he managed as a Yale student to get into a John F. Kennedy press conference. He was hooked. "J.F.K. was so glamorous and deft, with such marvelous, understated humor," he recalls. "I was so naive. I thought, 'Here I am with J.F.K...
...only room for about fifteen at the bar and you'll have to wait for a stool during dinner time. However, it's well worth the wait. Though the portions are on the small side, the sushi is fresh and all made right before your eyes by laconic, deft sushi chefs. The menu is in Japanese and English, but I got the feeling that Kotobukiya was designed for people who knew their Japanese food. While most Japanese restuarants provide elaborate descriptions of what kinds of fish they serve for the first-time sushi eater, there is only one bright placard...
...radar scope yet, except Richard Lugar's. Usually when matters abroad are discussed, Lugar's expertise commands bipartisan respect. But now that he's after the big prize, even Lugar has veered offtrack. When Saddam Hussein recently jailed two Americans for straying into Iraq-an action requiring deft diplomacy-Lugar waxed on about sending the Marines to rescue them...
...allots three stories each under the rubrics East and West. The first group, set in his native India, consists of simple village anecdotes, reminiscent of similar work by the contemporary master R.K. Narayan. The Western stories display a deft but slightly arid Postmodernism, particularly a Tristram Shandy-esque retelling of Hamlet...