Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most elaborate schemes: hiring a perennially drunken and pompous British film maker in exile to make bar mitzvah movies for doting parents. The film maker is played by Denholm Elliott, who is hilariously disheveled and polluted nearly past the point of pretension, a characterization of enormous comic skill. His bar mitzvah production is a triumphant, unconscious (on his part) parody combining the most tiresome features of the anthropological and popular front documentaries of another time. Beethoven's Fifth provides the musical score, Elliott himself the pompous narration, holding together shots of the ceremony itself, African puberty rituals and Nazis...
...began his close association with Ford, who was then Republican leader hi the House. In 1969 Hartmann joined Ford's staff as legislative assistant and quickly won his boss's admiration for his willingness to work long hours, his avid embrace of conservative principles and his skill as a writer. Hartmann proudly recalls how he helped gore the Democratic Administration by exploiting the phrase "credibility gap" and by publicizing the number of Government contracts given to some of President Johnson's chief financial backers. During those years Hartmann also wrote position papers on legislative issues...
Consummate Skill. The dilemma of Caramanlis is one of exquisite ironies. It was the arrogance of his predecessors, the Greek military dictatorship that had masterminded the overthrow of Archbishop Makarios as a move toward unification of Greece and Cyprus, that led to the Turkish invasion of the island July 20 and the fall of the inept junta in Athens. Now, if Caramanlis gives in totally to the Turks, his new government may in its turn collapse and the military-or a much less likely dictatorship of the left-may once again come back...
...Caramanlis has shown consummate skill in unbalancing his foes. To forestall another military coup he dispatched most of the country's troops far away from the capital on the unassailable grounds that they were needed to protect the frontiers against the Turks. Last week, in a follow-up move that showed his confidence, he sacked the country's ten leading generals and replaced them with men of his own choice. He also purged former Strongman Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannides, who had led the dreaded military police under the junta and who was widely blamed for planning the move...
...careful not to open them too much." Ustinov's ocular difficulties are caused by his role as Hnup Wan, a bungling Chinese spy in the Walt Disney spoof One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, which he is filming in London with Co-Star Helen Hayes. Ustinov's skill in portraying his character has proved especially unnerving for his wife Helene, who visited the set during the first day of shooting. "She seemed extremely upset when she realized who I was," says Ustinov. "She looked like a faithful dog who sees the same make of car as his master...