Word: cunningness
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Granted the almost insuperable problems of portraying such exalted beings, Maggie Smith's Cleopatra and Keith Baxter's Antony are blazingly well executed. Smith is not precisely a sultry, sun-kissed figure of voluptuousness, but she is regal, cunning, mercurial, and desperately in love with her "man of...
Jean Paul Getty was one of a not-yet-vanished American breed, the lone wolf operator who, through cunning, luck and a sharp sense of timing, builds vast wealth and a far-flung business colossus almost singlehandedly. "If I were starting again," he liked to tell visitors at Sutton Place...
Lipstick is less a movie than a marinade that the film makers obviously hope will tenderize and make palatable a tough and distinctly untasty subject. The trouble is that all the cunning they put into their saucery is of a low and painfully obvious sort.
Scheer, his voice made hollow by several thousand miles of telephone wire from San Francisco warns, "He's a sharp, cunning, ruthless politician. And if you buy that mystic stuff, you're crazy."
Sweden's super-stiff taxes for the self-employed are the result of a strategy of Prime Minister Olof Palme's Social Democratic Party to build popularity in an election year. The Social Democrats only barely prevailed in the 1973 elections, and Palme faces another severe test at...