Word: deftly
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...there a deft little lesson here in how to distinguish raw genius from cautiously tutored craft? You bet there is. But Allen and McGrath also recognize how rude, disturbing and inconvenient greatness can be. And they grant gracious absolution to pretentious mediocrity, once it learns its place. Allen bathes his fable in a seductive, rosy light, grants everyone in the wonderful ensemble cast a comic high point, and gives us a film that combines impeccable craftsmanship and a basic exuberance that's been missing from his work for years...
...extremely clear about what he wants, but he's not close minded; he's no bully." Travolta says Tarantino trusts actors: "He lets you put all the icing on the cake. For Vincent, I could mock up the hair, the accent, the walk, the talk." The result is a deft portrait of a guy who moves warily and at his own slo-mo pace, as if he needed all his concentration just to stay alive...
Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, has written a benchmark biography that fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell at his table at Manhattan's celebrity hangout, the Stork Club. Gabler captures everything except the essence of Winchell's breathless dot-dot-dot tabloid style. Never does the author parse an entire column or broadcast to make Winchell accessible to a generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables...
...second, the Crimson showed considerable improvement over last season in three main areas. First, the team's offense was better than ever. Intent on eroding Columbia's perimeter defense going into the game, Harvard followed through with a deft mixture of short-range passing and off-tackle running. Ferrara(22-32-245 passing, 11-45 running) and running backs Eion Hu (18-73 rushing) and Kweli Thompson (12-65) stood out in these endeavors, but kudos also go out to the offensive line, which showed a mastery of myriad blocking routes...
...severed hand, a gunshot wound, a child who has swallowed a key -- and while some are followed to a conclusion of sorts, others disappear without a trace. Yet the episode, directed by Rod Holcomb, is not just a cinema-verite jumble. The characters are fleshed out in a few deft strokes -- one doctor (Anthony Edwards) is being wooed by a cushy private practice -- without hype or sentimentality. These are doctors of stoic demeanor and blunt bedside manner, yet they're more honestly compassionate than the breast beaters of Chicago Hope. The real tragedy of the emergency room, they realize...