Word: cunningness
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It is the conceptual contradiction between the gracefulness of the act of figure skating and the cynical cunning of the attack which is the key to the story's appeal. A recent report on a network newscast featured aspiring skaters holding forth on how often skates are stolen or deliberately...
Theater: Six thumbs up for David Ives' cunning playlets 106
Sure Thing, the opening playlet, is 40 cunning variations on meeting cute. A young man approaches a young woman seated at a restaurant table. Every time he or she says something clumsy or frosty a bell rings (ding!), the actors freeze and the process ratchets back a step. Movie-wise...
In writing A Drinking Life, he faced a technical dilemma -- how to repudiate the booze that did so much damage in his life while reproducing what he still considers the happier side of the drinking, the exuberant good times. The solution might have lain in more detachment -- drunkenness recollected in...
But when Gerry and three other Irish friends are held in a London jail for seven days without being informed of their charges, he begins a saga that will prove this petty thief to possess a greater moral conscience than the representatives of the British police and judicial system. Mercilessly...