Word: cunningness
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But Siegel is more concerned with the cunning and ironic measures that Varrick takes to ensure his comfort in his declining years. The movie concludes on the same image with which it opened, and with an especially crafty little twist. It should not diminish the viewer's surprise too...
To avoid repeating it, Israel will probably overhaul much of its intelligence apparatus in the hope of getting a more accurate evaluation of the Arabs' intentions in the future. As an immediate measure, Major General Aharon Yariv, who headed Israeli intelligence when it masterminded the 1967 strikes against Egypt...
Truffaut chronicles all their vagaries with tolerance and bemusement. He makes film making, even at its most scrambled, seem wonderfully fulfilling. The general air of celebration is seductive, but it dulls from time to time the film's cunning edge of irony. When Truffaut reassures a distraught Jean-Pierre...
WHITE LIGHTNING concerns a good old boy named Gator McKluskey (Burt Reynolds) who is serving time in the Arkansas pen for messing around with illegal liquor. Word reaches him that his younger brother has been murdered by a local sheriff (Ned Beatty), who has been getting a substantial skim off...
Meschers, 1951, was one result. Originally a scene of green pine trees and blue sea, it became a brisk mosaic of slender, bladelike forms set with cunning ambiguity between figure and field, in a matrix of dark ultramarine. A very "European" painting in its reference to the sharp edges and...