Word: shrewd
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...from L'Heure Bleue, a Guerlain scent that is sprayed every morning throughout the galleries. The senses reel. They are meant to. This is not art-if clothes may be called art at all-meant to be pondered and absorbed. This is curatorial show business of a particularly shrewd order. With the humble addition of a light show and the sale of Pharmaceuticals at the ticket counter, "La Belle Epoque" could be honestly promoted as a real time trip...
...crucial executive ability, above all for the Chief Executive of the U.S., is perceptiveness about people. This will bear heavily on the quality of the President's appointments and his ability to mold his people into an effective Administration. He must be shrewd enough to see when infighting is unavoidable, even useful, and when it is destructive. F.D.R., Truman, Ike, J.F.K. and for a time L.B.J. were good managers and motivators of people. Nixon's management methods brought us Watergate. Ford and Carter were weak as people managers. Reagan presided over some outlandish administrative arrangements last year...
Timerman, whose bestselling Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number recounted the two years he spent imprisoned and tortured in his native Argentina, must be a shrewd man. Jews revere their martyrs and heroes, and victims of political repression rightfully have a certain cachet these days...
Beissinger: However, we have this image of this urbane, Western intellectual who knows an awful lot about our society. I'm not sure he knows all that much about our society. He is a shrewd man. It is said he has modern art on his walls and likes to listen to records and that those are the major signs that he is indeed Westernized. But, he is a man who has never traveled outside of the Soviet bloc...I want to show that he is not as fascinated with Western culture as we may think...
John De Lorean probably saw his auto company going down the drain and subconsciously courted disaster. For many highly successful people the only alternative to spectacular success is dramatic failure. De Lorean was too shrewd not to be aware of the dangers a novice faces in the drug trade. Your story noted that he appeared calm and unsurprised when he was arrested. Perhaps De Lorean was also relieved...