Word: shrewd
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...They are also expected to be ghostwritten, or catered: you call the service, and they do the book. So much for expectations. Candice Bergen's account of her first 38 years not only is handwritten, it is one of the better books of the season so far: a shrewd, funny, loving and sometimes appalling account of how it felt to grow up in a family that was singular even in Hollywood...
...charge of the Hart campaign is Hart himself, and therein lies a weakness. As he proved in the 1972 McGovern campaign and in his stunning upset this year in New Hampshire, Hart is a shrewd political tactician. But it is exceedingly difficult to be a winning candidate and an artful campaign manager at the same time. As Hart correctly points out, the campaign has had to go from a "mom and pop operation to a national chain" overnight. Yet the business is still largely owner run: when Hart delegates, he often finds himself trying to clean up the mistakes...
...soldiers and officers. "The origin of the revolution has its roots in tremendous social injustice. The violence will not disappear until that injustice is reduced." Monsignor Rivera y Damas does not possess the charisma of Monsignor Romero, but beneath his affable air and sleepy eyes, he is extremely shrewd. Many say that he has managed to unite progressives and conservatives in the Salvadoran church with his moderate position. His theory that only reforms will neutralize insurrection is quite similar to Duarte's. When I ask him if the elections will contribute to progress in El Salvador, he crosses himself...
Robert Joy, while a fine actor, seems somewhat miscast as Huckleberry. He seems too uncomfortably Eastern to make a convincing Mississippi urchin Big River's Huck lacks the lazy, shrewd kind of cool that made I wam's hero so memorable...
...cause by sleeping with a town councilor. Less obviously needy, Andrea pursues the job with a worldly resignation that contrasts to good dramatic effect with his rival's cookie-tossing eagerness for it. Luciano Odorisio's Dear Maestro is not much to look at, but it is shrewd in its examination of how envious small-town gossip exacerbates a contest that neither participant wants, compassionate about men standing on the cusp of middle age, still scrambling to keep their dreams glimmering, and pleasingly ironic in the way it works out its story...