Word: cunningness
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Morale at the firm is so bad that more than 50 top executives have left since 1989. Current and former staff members place much of the blame on Dilenschneider. They describe him as a Machiavellian leader with an oversize ego, a brilliant yet cunning bully who compulsively lied and reneged...
Imagine a duet of dueling megastars: the chandelier from Phantom of the Opera and the helicopter from Miss Saigon. Or a dance number that redubs Tommy Tune's somber, doomy Grand Hotel as Grim Hotel. Or a patter song to the tune of Brush Up Your Shakespeare, in which I...
Under the intense scrutiny of a Presidential campaign, this cunning carelessness could be a liability. But voters tend to ignore such details, and Harkin's obviously heartfelt commitment to his causes overshadows his lapses. Last week when he pleaded for expanding immunization services for impoverished children, he recalled getting shots...
His background is newspapering, but Robert Maynard showed the cunning of an investment banker last week in preventing the Oakland Tribune from closing down for good. Maynard, the only black owner of a metropolitan newspaper in the U.S., raised the last-minute cash by playing on the rivalry between the...
It may be quite a while before writers find an arena as morally complex or financially rewarding. Before World War II, the spy novelist usually took the low road: the hero was implausibly good, as in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps. Evil was unambiguous. Sax Rohmer invested his...