Word: deftness
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...businessperson who wants to hide his relationship with his gay partner and thus decides to marry a woman from Shanghai in need of a green card. Wai-Tung’s parents, overjoyed by the news, immediately fly to New York. Cultural clash ensues, and Lee’s deft treatment of the comedy and madness in the situation drew him international attention. Mandarin/English with English subtitles. 9 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students. Harvard Film Archive...
Never again will Sato—who scored the first goal on Saturday just 95 seconds after the Crimson had fallen behind 1-0—turn and hopelessly tangle a defender’s legs with her deft displays of skill...
...Love Actually's humor derives from the fact that people are struck dumb by their passions. But as he proved with his script for Four Weddings and a Funeral, Curtis has a deft hand with multiple stories. And as he showed in writing Notting Hill and co-writing Bridget Jones's Diary, he has an acute sense of the desperate needs that underlie our often comically deflected longings. In his comedies people always act improbably, but they are full of a sort of fierce wistfulness too. They will eventually go to extraordinary lengths to find romantic fulfillment. Thus Grant...
...ensuing kickoff, the Crimson displayed its skill—in this instance, senior midfielder Katie Westfall and sophomore midfielder Maile Tavepholjalern each snaked through several Bears defenders with nifty dribbling linked by a deft pass—but couldn’t quite finish...
Besides crawling back to UNESCO, her visit to Paris was aimed at mending fences with the international community and, more particularly, the French. It was a particularly deft move by the Bush administration, sending the president’s better half to clean up the worse half’s mess. Laura does the dirty work, kissing up to President Chirac, the UN, and the French people, while Bush reaps the rewards unscathed...