Word: cagey
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...Doting audiences have seen Zhao grow from elfin youth to cagey comedian. In the international hit Shaolin Soccer she plays a shy baker with an extravagant case of eczema who shaves her head, pulls some nifty martial-arts moves and wins the match, the guy and, in the film's last scene, the cover of TIME. In My Dream Girl, a ripoff of Pygmalion, she's a ragamuffin (but still quite a muffin) who elevates silliness into a showcase for urchin charm. She ranged further in two films she made with Jiang Wen: He Ping's Warriors of Heaven...
...flashy part that's too often just belted out. Lemalu is on the cusp of stardom. His first album last year, a rich collection of favorite songs like Schubert's Der Wanderer and Finzi's Rollicum-Rorum, won him the Gramophone magazine award for best newcomer. Although EMI are cagey about the figures, it sold tens of thousands - extremely good for an unknown singer - persuading the label to sign him to a five-year contract. His triumph in New Zealand music competitions led famous judges Sarah Walker and Tom Krause to recommend him to London's Royal College of Music...
...finished mini-series has swayed many critics. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says it "reminds us how fragile democracy is." That's not to say that Hitler solves every mystery--it's cagey, for instance, on whether most Germans shared or simply tolerated Hitler's anti-Semitism--or that no viewer might draw the wrong lessons from it. When people say it's risky to try to understand evil, they're right. But it is far more dangerous not to try to understand...
...also received a visit from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who hobnobbed with soldiers and signed an agreement with local officials for the upgrading of Qatari bases used by the Pentagon. Asked by a servicewoman if Iraq will cooperate sufficiently with U.N. weapons inspectors to avert war, Rumsfeld was characteristically cagey: "It would be kind of out of line for me to opine as to what it might turn out to be. Time will tell." For Saddam, it's running...
...skies "the color of cold tea" and endlessly shape-shifting weather. They find their way around places where the wet heat falls on you "like a barber's towel," where a meticulous local looks like a man "who spent his formative years in a trouser press" and where a cagey old woman brushes off Dollar's suspicious flatteries with "I have discovered that young men's blandishments are simply too much...