Word: cunningness
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Palin's Gilbert is the perfect dramatic foil for her. In contrast with her vivacious cunning, he can merely smile sadly and wrinkle the crow's feet around his eyes as the world shits on him. His affection for Betty even suggests that he likes playing the schlomozzle.
There is no precedent. A corporate star becomes Secretary of the Treasury and & then White House chief of staff, a descending curve by normal calculation. Don Regan is not normal. "At dinner parties I sit below the salt now," he says, a flash in his cunning eye. "There are a...
Heaney, who alternates stints of teaching at Harvard with intense, productive periods of writing at his home outside Dublin, has heeded Joyce. The master of "exile and cunning" would understand the image of inspiration authenticated by Heaney's ringing lines: "That eternal fountain, hidden away,/ I know its haven and...
In his big serious roles, Lemmon often turns his best instincts upside down. His gestures seem stranded between media: too intimate for the stage, too ostentatiously cunning for the screen. His Emmett Kelly face sags under the weight of compromise, drains of life, wears anguish like a Distinguished Service Cross...
There are illustrators and illustrators. But there is only one Maurice Sendak. His drawings for Grimm fairy tales and his million-copy bestseller, Where the Wild Things Are (1963), unfolded the primary metaphors of dreams; In the Night Kitchen (1970) fused Walt Disney, Laurel and Hardy, the comic strips of...