Word: cunningness
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Merle Miller, who died shortly after finishing this mammoth book last year, achieved his greatest success with his oral biographies of Presidents Truman and Johnson. He obviously knows a good story, and he admires his hero. Though a number of Eisenhower's fellow commanders in World War II regarded him...
Alfred E. Vellucci begins his fourth two-year term as mayor of Cambridge this month. At 72, he has spent half his life in local politics, earning a reputation for colorful oratory, political cunning and undying persistence in giving come-uppances to the blue-blooded types of Harvard University.
The world is now accustomed to the contrast between Gorbachev's style and that of his thuggy Soviet predecessors -- brutal, cunning, stony-faced -- but it still marvels at how the sterile Soviet system could produce a leader so articulate and reasonable in tone if not substance. Too adroit to be...
As a reviewer in London and New York City in the '50s and early '60s, he demonstrated an unequaled gift for capturing the theatrical moment in language charged with wit, passion and a vibrant vision of what theater might be and rarely was (or is). His pieces offered nothing less...
"Fatal Abstraction." In Ridley Scott's Someone to Watch Over Me, a cop (Tom Berenger) is assigned to guard a rich woman (Mimi Rogers) who witnessed a murder. He loves his wife but is seduced by the lady's wealth and vulnerability. And then -- can you hear it coming? -- his...