Word: adeptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stone is as adept as ever at portraying haunted, weak, self-destructive people. In the past, though, he has tossed such creatures into the eddies of larger events. In A Hall of Mirrors (1967), a pot-smoking disk jockey in New Orleans stumbles into the fringes of a radical right-wing uprising. Dog Soldiers (1974) depicted California drug traffic as the Viet Nam War coming home to roost. A Flag for Sunrise (1981) showed some misfits sinking into a vortex of Central American revolution. The background stakes in Children of Light are, by comparison, inconsequential. A movie budgeted...
...acting compensates well. Korn is a mystified but never self-pitying king and the two lovers generate a high reading on the steamometer. The rest of the east is consistently supportive, but generally better at clownishness than solemnity. Mordren (Jon Tolins), Arthur's wicked illegitimate son, is especially adept at delivering bitingly sarcastic lines like "Ah, Camelot--where the King gives freedom and the Queen takes liberties...
...present damage and future threat posed by our burgeoning federal budget deficit. Unfortunately, a majority of Capitol Hill lawmakers refuse to bite the bullet and raise taxes while reigning in the government's massive defense appropriations. Instead, they are well on the road to taking a politically adept but cowardly exit from the crisis...
While friends in the audience ooh-ed and aah-ed at their cohorts in the spotlight, they reserved their loudest applause for the adept posing of the professionals...
...same breath, Yevtushenko mocked some of the policies of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Yevtushenko has always been very adept at knowing which way the political winds are blowing. Clearly, he has lent his literary voice to Gorbachev's campaign...