Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desolating pathos of madness is missing from Anderman's mad scene. Nothing in Anglim's countenance suggests that he has "supp'd full with horrors " But the political core of the play remains intact. Macbeth is a politician's tragedy. It is full of the cagey schemes and ruthless deeds by which men seek to attain and hold power, and of the cruel downfall which they court...
Altered States. A modern Dr. Jekyll unleashes the primal beast within himself. The meeting of Paddy Chayefsky and Ken Russell set off a daft, cagey combustion of ideas and styles, producing a fantasy of delirium and delight...
...Army, which desolates Barbara. He then invites everyone to his munitions plant, where the workers dwell in a model city. From generation to generation the Undershaft inheritance can only go to a foundling, and Cusins qualifies. Moralistically sniffish, Cusins resists Undershaft's blandishments until the cagey old dialectician storms, "Dare you make war on war?" Cusins succumbs, vowing to arm the common man against "the lawyers, the doctors, the literary men, the politicians, who, once in authority, are more disastrous and tyrannical than all the fools, rascals and impostors...