Word: clever
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...faithful feel as if they were in a concentration camp. Residents of Cracow also wondered why a park that had been used for a papal Mass in 1979 had been subdivided with wooden railings that gave it the appearance of a cattle pen. The likely explanation: it was a clever way to keep the Pope from mingling with the people...
...began as a two-week holiday job. Jonathan Miller, then a 26-year-old medical student, joined three fellow Oxbridge graduates in writing and performing a comic revue at the Edinburgh Festival. His collaborators were Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Their insouciant, schoolboy-clever show became the London and Broadway hit Beyond the Fringe, and Miller's two-week lark turned into a celebrated 22-year career in the theater, primarily as a director...
...which Peter Nichols elaborates in his scorching comedy of raddled mores in the late 20th century. The tale Passion tells is almost as old as drama is, the eternal triangle of husband, wife and the younger other woman. Despite the hoary age of its theme, the play is clever, impudent, erotic and an emotional demolition...
Andropov plays a clever but ambiguous card in the missile game
...word genius is good for starting arguments but bad for book titles, unless the books are about Mozart. To insist that Film Director Alfred Hitchcock possessed this incandescence is simply to ensure a lot of windy exception taking. Yes, he was devilishly clever, but was there not a crippling contempt for human emotions and possibly for film making in his mechanical manipulation of viewers...