Word: cunningness
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In the 17th century reign of Spain's King Philip IV, a once-mighty empire was drowning in corruption, intrigue and lawlessness, while the Inquisition sowed terror throughout the land. If ever there was a man of honor and integrity who could bring justice to the wretched of this world...
Imagine a cell nestled happily in the human body and enjoying the best of all possible worlds. It is endowed with immortality, the remarkable ability to divide indefinitely. Each time it cleaves, it makes two daughter cells with different fates. One divides again and again and again, spawning hundreds of...
In Season 1 (out on DVD), hairdresser Jill Tyrrell (Julia Davis) pursued the husband of her wheelchair-bound neighbor, murdered her own hubby and framed a man for his death. Other than that, she's a delight to be around. In Season 2 of this BBC sitcom, writer-actress Davis...
The implication is that Howard, a striver par excellence, is there by merit. But it's also by cunning, luck and perseverance. And the wonders of incumbency, the best political steroid ever. Howard rules (much better than) O.K.! Among many good ones, the P.M. is the Liberal party's best...
Before getting to the things that Bernard-Henri Lévy does well in American Vertigo, his entertaining and insightful account of how, last year, to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville - the aristocratic French author renowned for his perceptive and enduring classic, Democracy in...