Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more lavishly budgeted Lianna, everyone at first seems to be trying too hard not to try too hard. But as its heroine discovers resources of wit and self-confidence, the film does too. By the end it has turned a "problem drama" into a social comedy, full of cagey behavioral surprises and a lovely performance by Griffiths. Of all the new non-Hollywood films (this one was shot in Hoboken, N.J.), Lianna is the one most likely to reach and touch a wider audience. Even independent films must be dependent on an adventurous movie public...
Store executives had made clear in previous weeks that the department store's death would not be accompanied by an advance announcement or ceremony. Even late in the afternoon on January 17, when rumors of Hudson's final day had spread, store officials were cagey. When a Detroit reporter asked Hudson's chairman P. Gerald Mills if the store was in fact in its final hours, he said. "Are we? I still see customers...
...Tetbury, Master Thomas Charles Wortley, 5, will entertain local celebrators by re-enacting the wedding with Miss Karen Diana Welch, 9. There will be a wedding cake and toasts to both brides and grooms. Members of the younger set are not quite so cagey with the press as their elders, however, and a friend of the couple confided that Master Wortley thinks Miss Welch "soppy"; Miss Welch, in return, considers her make-believe spouse "an awful brat...
...also be one of the last chances for the West to deal with the devil it knows, as it were. As the congress settled into a numbing round of other speeches and reports, it bore throughout the un mistakable stamp of the cagey, infirm old boss who had once again exercised absolute control. Quite possibly for the last time...
Lapotaire renders Piaf, the diminutive poet-songstress of the pre-dawn city blues, with matchless psychological fidelity. She gives us Piaf, whom the French called the Sparrow, as an eagle in courage. She makes us know Piaf soul-seared, the Paris gutter urchin, the cagey whore whom the world came to hold in the embrace of fame but who could not keep her own life from seeping through her splayed fingers, at 47 in 1963 spent by alcohol, morphine, sex and cancer...