Word: cunningness
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The composer, director Trevor Nunn and designer Maria Bjornson have tinkered ! in various ways since London, but the main change is in the acting: the people have been made less brittle and more likable. That is in keeping with the cunning naivete of the score. The musical highlights are Love...
When will it end? I agonized as I walked to my dorm. Those Japanese. They're not tourists. They're probably devious, cunning spies lying in wait to infiltrate Harvard and finally buy it. Maybe they're already planning to remake the John Harvard statue into Godzilla.
Yes, this is a Gypsy Godfather, its spiky authenticity achieved by an almost all Gypsy cast. Director Emir Kusturica (When Father Was Away on Business) neither romanticizes nor flinches from the popular image of Gypsies as a primitive, stealthy people. But he also sees them as a Third World nation...
Artists have favorite tropes, metaphors to which they resort semiconsciously over and over again. Rowlandson's chief one was the opposition between youth and age, freshness and decay, virility and impotence. He was not in any real sense a political artist -- unlike his colleague James Gillray. Beneath Rowlandson's comedy...
Shortly after a U.S.-suggested visit from Vicky Amado, the general's 35- year-old mistress, Noriega told Laboa he would leave the embassy and give himself up to American forces. He asked permission to telephone his wife, who had sought refuge in the Cuban embassy with their three daughters...