Word: cunningness
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DOCTOROW'S book has a creative weight to match his historical content. He intends his book to be read as if it were being written in front of use we feel we are present at a first, groping recollection of submerged memories, but that is only Doctorow's cunning. In...
This is a fastidious, acrobatically cunning and invigoratingly well-acted thriller. It gently parodies the puzzles of what has come to be known as the golden age of detective fiction at the same time that it cannily manipulates them. That golden age, as a line in the script defines it...
A professor of early American history and culture at the University of South Florida and an established Franklin scholar, Currey previously published a sober, closely documented work, Road to Revolution/Benjamin Franklin in England, 1765-1775. In his latest book he presents accusations by Franklin's associates that, as an...
As chief thug and extortionist for the late François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Luckner Cambronne used to be the second most feared man in Haiti. After Papa Doc's death in April last year, Cambronne appeared to be on the verge of becoming No. 1. Though Jean-Claude...
It is one of the treasured stories of biblical cunning. In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob outsmarts his parsimonious uncle Laban while tending Laban's flocks. First he tells Laban to cull all spotted sheep and goats out of the flock for safekeeping, then offers to tend the "monochrome" remainder...