Word: craftier
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...crucial for pop survival and establishing a persona. Madonna sheds images like snakeskins: the bad-girl boytoy; the sassy feminist; the confused pseudo penitent; the ambisexual flirt; the wistful sex bomb, Marilyn Monroe reborn from a peroxide bottle with a genie inside, snuggling up to Dick Tracy. She is craftier and more gifted than anyone else playing the game right now, but all her identities have one quality in common. They are teasingly, patently artificial. They insist on their own calculation. They revel in it and induce the audience to do the same...
...think I've finally discovered what the UC is all about. These same misfits whose actions we generally indulge or ignore (and occasionally ridicule) aren't the harmless nuisances we've always thought they were; indeed, they're craftier than Bob Vila. Our representatives aren't whimpering dolts, they're wily entrepreneurs. A $65 fee for access to Shad Hall may not affect a lot of students, but soon, for a hefty percentage of the take, perhaps the UC will start selling off other "free" student services. Next time you're at the MAC waiting to use the overcrowded athletic...
...They're much more discrete this year," said the students' temperance monitor. They're much craftier as well...
...offices and factories may be a winnable one, shutting those substances out of the country is another story. The Reagan Administration's campaign to stop the smugglers, an effort backed by $1.2 billion last year compared with $708 million in 1981, seems to make the outlaws only craftier and more cold-blooded. Total imports of heroin and marijuana have declined somewhat, but cocaine now flows into the U.S. from Latin America at a rate of roughly 125 tons a year, compared with about 58 tons in 1982. "Despite the rhetorical bravado and a few highly publicized successes, the U.S. effort...
...Crimson wrestling squad dropped its fourth of its last five meets Saturday afternoon when the Princeton Tigers roared into town with an older and craftier team which calmly decimated a predominantly freshman lineup of Crimson matmen...