Word: cagey
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...nimble tread of melancholic star quality. Raymond agonizes about his family back home; Kolya never visits or mentions the family he must have left stranded. Raymond hates U.S. politics, but the disco beat pulsing from Kolya's tape deck calls him home. Good idea, Ray, since the cagey beast from the KGB (Jerzy Skolimowski) hates blacks...
...romantic, and he's an exhibitionist." But for some reason he didn't want him to play Dr. Young. Linda, of course, had to be in the movie; she was the movie. He gave her an alliterative, movie-star name and devised costumes, lighting tricks and cagey camera angles to hide her abdominal scar, a memento from one of her car wrecks. Linda was no goddess. But she was slim and freckled, not your standard porno skank, and her inexperience on screen played like freshness, innocence...
...Harvard power play, which ranks third in the nation and has accounted for 36 percent of the team’s goals on the season, was afforded few chances by the clean and cagey Clarkson defensive corps. Limited to only two man-advantage opportunities on the evening, none of which came in the quiet first period, the Crimson had to adapt and find ways to score at even strength...
Despite the importance of Greenspan's task, he is cagey about his methods. He routinely declines press interviews and will describe his decision-making processes only via circumlocutions that even some veteran Fed watchers find confusing. He relies, of course, on factory reports, unemployment stats and other economic data. But he has also developed his own method to help evaluate the likelihood of various scenarios, assigning a probability to each outcome. His priority, he told the Senate banking committee in June, is understanding "the many sources of risk ... quantifying [them] ... and assessing the costs associated with each...
Moore's debut film, 1989's Roger & Me, made for $250,000, was bought by Warner Bros. for $3 million. It earned nearly $7 million at the box office and introduced audiences to an improbable movie star: a shaggy, cagey doofus with a killer instinct for political and comic agitation...