Word: cunningness
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There are no moral complexities here, no cunning passages of history, no double agents trading allegiances for meaning. But there is a tumultuous plot, an appealing young protagonist -- who except Hitler could root against a pre- pubescent? -- and a prime villain. Colonel Gregor Laemmle, the SS officer in pursuit of...
Cunning, cynical young Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns he has been cut out of his father's $3 million estate, which has gone to an older brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), whom he did not know existed. Ray has long been institutionalized because he is an autistic savant. He has a...
But Tower was a cunning legislator who delighted in frustrating congressional liberals and earned the nickname "Ironbutt" for his wait-'em- out negotiating style. Moreover, he wanted the Defense job when few others did. He campaigned for Bush, rushed to Dan Quayle's defense after the Republican Convention, and joined...
To begin with, my bedroom is now a study. With great cunning, my parents waited until my junior year before they erased all vestiges of my memory. They packed away my weight set, tore down the basketball net and worst of all, gave my NFL bedsheets to charity. My pennants...
To critics, billionaire publishing baron Robert Maxwell is a capricious, blustering egotist. He is also a cunning entrepreneur who has added Macmillan to his growing U. S. stake.