Word: shrewd
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Bowie's first album in three years, Let's Dance, a record of shrewd and unsentimental dynamism, could be his biggest. It has sold more than 1 million copies, fielded one hit single and two excellent Bowie videos that are holding down heavy air space on MTV. The album and its gold-record title track are also buttressing Bowie's current tour, a blitzkrieg that has sold out stadiums all over Europe; in Gothenburg, Sweden, Edinburgh and Paris, he beat last year's Rolling Stones' attendance records. For a charity concert in London, scalpers got $150 a seat...
...Reagan's speeches or off-the-cuff remarks, they often find themselves having to correct his misstatements of fact. "The operative word is ignorant," Curtis Wilkie, a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, told Hodding Carter. "He's lazy. He's not stupid. He's shrewd. He's a smart politician." Sam Donaldson of ABC added: "You combine a very mechanized, ruthless ability to control the flow of news and Mr. Reagan's absence of a lot of depth . . . and you have a situation that just drives us up the wall...
...film sometimes wobbles in tone, and there is a certain strain involved in turning Donald and his criminal opponent into allies against rightist paramilitarists. But like all of Ritchie's best work (Downhill Racer, Semi-Tough), the film is full of shrewd throwaway behavioral observations. Sonny, for example, has a daughter (Kristen Vigard) who is a little compendium of spacy teen-age confusions; one minute she is watching porn tapes, the next she is trying to catch falling snowflakes on her tongue. Michael Leeson, who wrote scripts for the TV series Taxi, uses that show's mixture...
...serious sense he does not succeed. New York City Ballet, alas, does not have any girls as sexy as Rita, nor any boys who even set one thinking of Fred. The secret formula for the chemistry of Astaire's ballroom duets remains intact. Despite all this, Robbins, shrewd old romantic that he is, has come up with a diverting piece, a summer night's smile, evanescent, pretty, mildly seductive...
...Dwight Eisenhower, with whom he is frequently compared, Glenn's folk stature gives him tremendous believability with his audiences. Still, the crowds studied him carefully, trying to judge his competence. Is this space hero with the soapy talk about traditional values smart enough, they seemed to be asking, shrewd enough, to run the country? Will this man who has become almost a national icon, if unmasked, turn out to be an earnest bore...