Word: cunningness
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Linnet arrives in Montreal during World War II, alone and with $5 in her purse. As she describes her prospects, "My only commercial asset was that I knew French, but French was of no professional use to anyone in Canada then -- not even to French Canadians; one might as well...
Dores is an impressionist expert at a London auction house who has been sent to New York to help increase business in that prestigious and lucrative field. In town just long enough to establish a ruinous double love life, he is ordered to the Deep South to close a deal...
Sellars is celebrated for controversial reworking of revered texts. But his new theater's premiere, directed by Timothy Mayer, is if anything too faithful and tame. Shakespeare's play depicts a civil war brought about by a usurper King and the self-serving pretenders to his throne. Some productions emphasize...
In The Man from the U.S.S.R., four dramas make their first appearance in English, translated by the author's son Dmitri. All are adjectival, although an occasional verb wriggles by to enliven the proceedings. All glisten with the celebrated Nabokovian cunning; all are souvenirs of the post-revolutionary epoch when...
With cunning and a left jab, the saw and hammer of a boxer, Larry Holmes held David Bey off last week when the latest heavyweight stranger looked strong enough to rip right through Holmes' oaken arms. For four rounds, the only undefeated-and-recognizable champion in the world seemed in...