Word: cunningness
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Every generation has its crisis. In the 1940's it was World War II--the senseless brutality of Nazism and the deaths of innocent millions; in the 60s, Vietnam, a trauma from which we have yet to completely recover. Today, however, we face a more cunning, fatal foe, a silent...
The cunning selling practices used by the Turks to allure tourists--from yelling in the streets to grabbing tourists--shocked Hoilman. The Turks made haggling an art, says Hoilman. After figuring out where a tourists was from, they would tailor their sales pitch in terms of the person's taste...
The lady knows how to make an entrance. On New Year's Eve, 1972, she was borne onstage at Manhattan's Lincoln Center in a sedan chair with the drapes closed, one leg peeking through to salute the audience; at midnight she returned in a diaper as Baby 1973. She...
But just when you think you've got DeLillo's intentions pinned down, he'll toss a thematic spitball and twist his meaning 180 degrees. The second act is a cracked mirror image of the first, as cunning and elaborate systems of role-playing and deception are peeled away, audience...
A visitor thought of a passage of bully rhetoric in Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails, the record of his 1909 safari. The rhino, wrote Roosevelt, "seemed what he was, a monster surviving over from the world's past, from the days when the beasts of the prime ran riot...