Word: cunningness
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Guiliano dreams of smashing the power of the "Friends of the Friends." Sicilians, Puzo tells us, never say Mafia, a 10th century Arabic term meaning sanctuary. A thousand years later, the word is dark with irony. Founded to fight foreign oppressors, the organization has come to include the island'...
But nothing is perfect. "If people try hard enough and long enough and are cunning enough they can penetrate almost anything," Ganaghan says. Further, even the most effective security system is helpless against an inside attack--the kind of computer crime security consultants say is most frequently practiced. "Insider crime...
Go ahead and laugh then: at the open-toed sneakers with the six-inch platforms and the skirts for men; at the silvery ensembles that look like space suits for space cases and the heavy sweaters with turtlenecks and bare backs. You might wonder whether the clothes are a deliberate...
Luminous earlier this year in Serenading Louie and Other Places, Wiest is still no sexpot, no Marilyn; truth to tell, Langella is prettier than she is. More over, she affects a wispy giggle that mimics Monroe and every little girl lost from Susan Alexander Kane to Judy Garland. Yet Wiest...
The Government's glossy brochure offers 19 different sites. There is the high-tech Xanadu in Fort Lauderdale, with poolside bar and five bathrooms with French bidets. Other bidders may prefer a six-bedroom oceanfront estate in Vero Beach, with orchid ballroom, hand-painted wood floors and swimming pool...