Word: cunningness
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Merrick is cunning when it comes to handling talent. "Artists are supersensitive children," he says. "They have to be whipped sometimes, but they have to be whipped with lettuce leaves." Directors, playwrights, designers, songwriters, choreographers-they all say that Merrick is patience on a monument when they come to him...
Born of an obscure Nottinghamshire family, Allenby could nevertheless claim a martial ancestor of distinction: Oliver Cromwell. Still, he joined the army merely by mischance, having previously failed his civil service exams. A big quiet clumsy boy, he passed out twelfth in his class at Sandhurst, and was promptly gazetted...
KING RAT. A cunning G.I. scavenger (George Segal) exploits his fellow prisoners of war for profit in Director Bryan Forbes's brutal, unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp. Among those caught in the conman's toils, James Fox and Tom Courtenay struggle...
The pick of Rat's litter is Corporal King, a cunning G.I. thimblerigger whose genius for survival turns Changi into a thieves' market. Get yours, reasons the King, and despite rigid camp rules against trading, he gets his: watches, rings, or the shirt off another prisoner's...
This cunning little fable is used by William I. Lederer and the late Eugene Burdick as a kind of summing-up of their latest oversimplified, sometimes fatuous but, as usual, highly readable attack on U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. Returning after seven years to the ancient and mythical kingdom of...