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At first, Louise looks like a prettier, more cunning version of Kane's Susan Alexander. She has left her husband and come East to make her own way as a writer, but to the socialists and socialites of New York City, she is just Jack's dancing partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Go On | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Raynard DeLeon's week began with splendid luck and cunning. He and five fellow inmates of the San Diego County jail squeezed through a ventilator shaft and out an unlocked door. But from there, DeLeon went one way, and his luck and cunning skittered off in another.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Out of the Frying Pan | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Though slowed by diabetes, he is a cherubic figure, a twinkly-eyed grandfatherly sort, full of benign anecdotes about his past (and a convenient lack of memory for past frictions). The old attack is still there. Indeed, the cunning professional is more than ever capable of playing games with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some Kind of Genius | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

It took Hoving three years of plotting and research to authenticate the ivory cross, establish its background, and pry it out of the hands of its owner, a shady and cunning Yugoslav named Topic Mimara.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Schlockmeister | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Lundgren sets out with the family Airedale, a dim, stubborn beast named Hudley who drinks by submerging his head and opening his mouth. An uncertain backwoods cunning helps the make-believe p.i. collar the lumber rustlers, so it's on to Florida to deal with Dr. Rabun's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hick Gumshoe | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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