Word: cunningness
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Hence the elaborate symphony of hormonal responses that prompts us to fall in love with our drool-faced, incontinent offspring. Hence too the many cunning and often unladylike features of primate motherhood: the sexual promiscuity that, in some species, may help ensure the acquisition of top-grade sperm; the scheming...
Fitzgerald, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise on Vietnam, "Fire in the Lake," has devised a cunning booby trap. She equates the mystery of Reagan with the mystery of "Star Wars," his plan (visionary or goofy, depending) to erect an umbrella of space-borne laser and particle-beam weapons...
Of course they all fall in love, in different ways. Of course the guys behave stupidly at the end of Act 2, so there can be an Act 3. Like most recent films, it's long on running time and short on visual elegance. But it has a warming reticence...
MAC veterans recognize the futility of sign up sheets in reserving the coveted machines. The successful workout warrior eyes the prospects, stakes out his or her territory, then plies the line-waiting trade with the cunning born of years of experience.
Above all, watch for confusion. Putin's reform plans are not yet ready. German Gref, a longtime Putin associate, says the blueprint for the future of Russia will be ready in April. Another ambitious plan, this time to revamp the country's bureaucracy, is months away. But that is only...