Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsman on any big-city daily. But deadline brings a difference. No presses roll. Show business moves into the newsroom, and lights dim beyond the rim of the desk. The day's debris is shoved off into the shadows. As technicians man their equipment, a makeup expert goes to work on the managing editor. At the last moment he runs a comb through his blond hair, shrugs a neatly pressed jacket over his wrinkled shirtsleeves, and shoots his French cuffs. It is 6:30 p.m. Cameras zero in, and CBS's Walter Cronkite Jr. begins his half-hour...
...hard to feel really sorry for her, but Beryl Reid brings her to such vividly bitchy life that it is also hard to take the eye or mind off her. Equally expert and subtle are the acting strokes with which Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...
...withdrawn from both sides-a disillusioned and cynical neutralist, proud of his prowess in bed and at table. Aboard a ship bearing him to a Russian Black Sea port, Hillier gorges himself at both. In a stateroom, he literally tangles with an extraordinarily supple Indian girl who is an expert at the extracurricular forms to which the Kama Sutra is only a primer. In the dining room, an eating contest with another passenger becomes the most hilarious bit of trenchermanship since Albert Finney and Joyce Redman fed their faces in Tom Jones...
...Computer expert Ivan E. Sutherland has been named associate professor of Electrical Engineering, Sutherland, who was director of the Defense Department's computer research division before he came to Harvard this term, may teach a graduate seminar in the Spring...
Breath Catching. Stage center on campus does not mean an occasional chamber-music get-together in the faculty lounge, but frequent, fully promoted performances before large audiences in gleaming new theaters. In return, the schools gain status and expert faculty material. "Universities now realize that experience under fire is more important than an academic degree," says Pittsburgh Symphony Flutist Bernard Goldberg, who teaches part time at Duquesne University. "Musicians who have been required to perform consistently under high standards can impart information not ordinarily found in textbooks...