Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clayton also possessed the knack for calling the wonderful surprise play at the right moment. With Dartmouth on the Holy Cross 15-yard line, fourth down and five to go and the Big Green trailing by one touchdown, Clayton took the ball from center, bootlegged to his right, then throw to his left. John Foster, a reserve back, was standing all alone on the two-yard line...
...ever tried to catch: a lovable old counterfeiter who struck off amateurish one-dollar bills. St. Clair McKelway told the story in three New Yorker articles last year. Scripter Robert (It Happened One Night) Riskin retells it with just enough respect for the flavorsome facts and just the right knack of working them into warm, humorous fiction...
...trials themselves, Generation is a model of balance and lucidity. The tangled evidence is unraveled with easy assurance, the important issues coolly extricated from the legal verbiage that obscures them. What is almost as remarkable as Cooke's overall performance is his knack for indicating the worth of each piece of evidence as it came before the jury. Inevitably it becomes clear that the incriminating typewriter and the stolen State Department documents must doom the defendant. In the two trials, 20 of the 24 jurymen believed Chambers. Writes Cooke: "The verdict [in the second trial] galvanized the country into...
...Producer-Scripter Nat Perrin tells it, Petty (Robert Cummings) at first scorns his knack for improving on the female anatomy, permits a hoity-toity patroness to set him up in style as a serious painter. Then he meets Joan Caulfield, a shapely college professor with Victorian ideas. During an energetic courtship involving arrest, blackmail and academic disgrace, he melts away her inhibitions, and the Technicolor camera undrapes her hidden talents as a model. She returns the favor by stripping away his artistic pretensions...
...into deeper fictional water and for most of the passage keeps way on. The writing is taut, perhaps too spare to make DeCarlo's sudden switch entirely credible, and sometimes there is a smart-alecky playing with words and dialogue. But Loughlin has the good novelist's knack of suggesting more than he says and keeping his story moving with an air of inevitability. He is one young writer who owes a lot to Ernest Hemingway, but won't have far to go before he's out of debt...