Word: canniest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the canniest collectors of all are thieves, whose acquisitions from museums, galleries, churches and private homes are seldom recovered, despite intensive international police work. Interpol has an FBI-style Most Wanted list of stolen art works, some dating from 1938. Last week a priceless Tintoretto painting missing for nearly 30 years was recovered by the FBI in New York...
...newspapers along with ship arrivals. Now, with the tremendous increases in fine arts prices and the expansion of public interest, big auctions have become flash bulb and video-tape fiestas. To a large extent the transformation has been wrought by Sotheby's, the world's largest, canniest and most aggressive house. In the late '50s Sotheby's introduced such techniques as international telephone hookups, bidding by closed-circuit TV, the gala evening sale crammed with formally clad celebrities, assiduous ballyhoo and greatly increased sale schedules. More recently, Sotheby's pushed its mass-marketing strategy even...
...French, who may be the world's canniest people, do like to play crazy. Particularly when being fou like a fox lays a hot trail to the bank. They can be observed at their canniest-craziest at the annual showings in Paris of ready-to-wear fashions for fall and winter. The April r.t.w. cash bash is a come-lately promotion-cum-celebration that in recent years has overtaken the haute couture collections in importance, supports the high-fashion houses, and is largely responsible for drawing nearly $2 billion a year into the French economy. This year...
...Colts must get off to a good start if they are to survive the first five games of the season. The Colts open with a bout with the New England Patriots next week, followed in quick succession by other tough games with Dallas and Miami. But football's canniest handicappers are boldly putting their money on the Colts: Baltimore, which never saw the light of the tube last year until the playoffs, is scheduled for five nationally televised games this season. As befits Cinderella...
...counter with their disarming lack of pretension. "I had never thought about being First Lady," says the President's wife. "So I decided-I'm just going to be Betty Bloomer Ford." She both has and hasn't, and that may be her chief charm and canniest success as First Lady. Not long ago, after the White House domestic staff had turned in for the night, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger came up to the family quarters to report to the President on his latest diplomatic trip. Betty Ford, wearing bathrobe and slippers, wandered in and asked...