Word: skillfull
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Perhaps the emotional phrases were only to be expected in an emotional situation. And the fact is that even if Safer had gone out of his way to try to explain or excuse the Marines at Cam Ne, his words would have had little effect. To try to put pictures...
Even the name Vienna sets up resonances that belong to the past: candlelight, slow waltz music, fiacres, lindentree parks, the Danube and the Prater -a capital jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, doomed to obliteration by transitional winds. The old Vienna has its surviving spirits, none sturdier...
To the rational mind, this may seem to be an unlikely adventure, yet Brown, an expert surfer and a skillful camerman, manages to make it convincing. As in his four previous films, he offers a believable explanation of the surfers' dream world, where long waves break evenly on isolated beaches...
The public, understandably worried by warnings of the increasing dangers from crime, focuses on the issues and incidents which make good newspaper copy or television footage -- the brutal or daring crime; riots; capital punishment; the Supreme Court vs. the police; the skillful duel between counsel in the trial of the...
The acting, too, is generally skillful, but occasionally overdone. Edward Zang's cynical Scandal is always restrained yet his open disdain for the slithery lawyer Buckram (Bernard Wurger) is still as funny as anything in the show. Wurger himself smoothly handles a three minute conversation from a blackhatted Puritan lawyer...