Word: dextrous
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...lived in a Beverly Hills penthouse with his teenage niece Kelly (Noreen Corcoran) and a Chinese manservant (Sammee Tong). As unflusterable as Robert Young's Jim Anderson on Father Knows Best, Bentley wore suits that were tailored, not elbow-patched, and treated Kelly's adolescent anxieties with the same dextrous paternalism that made him so convincing in the courtroom. (Somehow the girl had more romantic entanglements than her suave guardian.) Nothing special, yet archetypal, the series wafted into homes on a cloud of geniality; its run ended as discreetly as it had begun...
...Madagascar. The largest lemur, the indri, has humanlike hands and feet that enable it to scamper up the dense tree branches in Madagascar's few remaining intact forests. The graceful brown lemur bounds effortlessly across openings in the canopy and hangs by its knees to graze on leaves. The dextrous and stealthy white and black sifaka has springlike legs that propel it through the forest like a cat, in quiet, arcing leaps. Watching them move is a mesmerizing experience; it's easy to see how well lemurs have adapted to their native forest, and how helpless they must be when...
...rritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have investigated this chance-is-destiny theme before, in Amores Perros and 21 Grams. This time, the canvas is larger, stretching from California and Mexico to Morocco and Japan. The weaving of the three story strands is dextrous; the performances, especially by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a very harried married couple and Rinko Kikuchi as a deaf-mute Tokyo teen, are fierce and acute. Then coincidence keeps piling on improbability, and the viewer's interest sours into exasperation. Yes, bad things can happen to decent people. But compared to the calamities that befall...
DIED. PEDRO GONZALEZ GONZALEZ, 80, dextrous physical comedian and one of Hollywood's earliest recognizable Mexican actors; in Culver City, Calif. In 1953 the aspiring comedian won a spot on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life. His goofy dances and witty exchanges with Marx led to a contract with John Wayne and roles in such films as The High and the Mighty and Rio Bravo...
...framing Japan's Sept. 11 parliamentary election as a referendum on his postal-privatization plan and outmaneuvering his rivals with dextrous political campaigning, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has scored his greatest victory, helping the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to its biggest majority since 1986. The encore, however, could prove trickier. Koizumi's postal-reform bill, aimed at breaking Japan's $3 trillion postal service into four separate companies by 2017, will be re-submitted at a special Diet session this week and is all but guaranteed to pass. His plans beyond that are hazy. Koizumi has promised...