Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Descriptions like "long, slow harmonic motion" and "a little scrawny but innovative and skillful" were among the tamer of the remarks.
Confronted with the precise, tough questions on Watergate he had long evaded, would Nixon continue to stonewall? Or would he break under the pressure of so public a forum and the interrogator's grilling? Would he finally do now what he might have done some four years ago: admit with...
Black Sunday. Director John Frankenheimer, making what has justly been touted as a riveting come-back with this film, hits just the right balance between fast pacing, clever technological effects and the skillful pretense of social relevance that this kind of political suspense thriller requires.
A preacher and civil rights leader in the '60s and Georgia Congressman in the '70s, Andy Young is used to speaking bluntly and forcefully. Although it might seem to be a contradiction, he is also a skillful, persuasive corridor negotiator-one reason why Carter chose him for the...
The film's technical aspects complement the carefully understated acting and direction. Haskell Wexler's cinematography is skillful and at times breathtakingly beautiful, but it is never vulgar or flashy. The sets are simple and the props few; Ashby avoids mounting exhibits of United Artists' vast collection of antique furniture...