Word: cunningness
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ALBERT MARQUET-Knoedler, 14 East 57th. Matisse said of him: "He is our Hokusai." But Marquet, though cunning and concise with lines, was a painter more dexterous than daring. He was also well-traveled, painted the harbors of Hamburg, Le Havre, Naples, Algiers with a tourist's sweeping gaze...
Faced with such voter cunning, the Interior Ministry before the latest election grappled for weeks with the delibility factor, finally developed an ink so potent that many a horny-handed Somali ballot stuffer came down with a skin rash. That took care of most repeaters. Despite scattered reports of overenthusiastic...
Cunning & Dog Food. Carnegie is lavishly addicted to long-range research, in which students join professors to anticipate future business problems. By simulating human problem solving on a computer, for example, Psychologist Herbert A. Simon and his colleagues have been teaching the machine to "think"-that is, to make "cunning...
In The Servant, Bogarde plays a gentleman's gentleman who utterly corrupts his employer, using flattery, pimpery, booze, and impudence to turn things around and become, quite actually, his master's master. Bogarde acts so unassumingly that at times the part seems to be playing itself, but afterward...
Into a Crossfire. Perhaps the foremost obstacle to Lodge's winning the 1964 G.O.P. nomination is his present position in South Viet Nam. Last year, anxious to get back into public life, he volunteered his services to President Kennedy, specified only that he be assigned to a truly meaningful...