Word: cunningness
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As the Administration settles in and its top people become more familiar, labels are also being stuck to them. Cartoonist Herblock has at last found in Secretary of State Haig a fiendish target for caricaturing that he hasn't enjoyed since the days of Nixon's sinister 5...
That is the premise of Death in a Tenured Position, the latest mystery by Amanda Cross. For the uninitiated. Cross novels feature the redoubtable Kate Fansler, a tenured 16th-century English literature professor at a New York City university, much like Columbia. Fortyish, WASPish, with a casual marriage to an...
Liberals and radicals of every stripe are the targets for the Spectator's salvos; an article entitled "Ugly Women" shows that in its defense of the good, pure and tradition, the magazine will without hesitation call in the heavy artillery. "Ugly Women," penned by Taki Theodoracopulos, who "lives immodestly in...
During working hours, McKellen can be found deploying this same unique combination of high art, low cunning and surreptitious showmanship. His incarnation of Play wright Shaffer's antagonist, Antonio Salieri, owes much to the offhand technical virtuosity McKellen displayed in that restaurant and even more to an analytic actor...
To seek such an audience, to think of it as the normal and proper one for avant-garde art, was to take a step back from the ideal of the artist as Public Man that had been embodied in Courbet's career. It meant running for the constituency of...