Word: shrewd
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...foreign ground, there was Manning standing as comfortably and solidly as the Washington Monument. "Where y'all been?" he would ask Barbara Walters or Dan Rather. Manning, of course, had already tamed the natives and educated them in the ways of the American media. He was calm and shrewd and as smooth as sour mash from Tennessee, from whence he hailed. He never failed. Somehow, the mobile White House was always plugged into the rest of the world...
Shakespeare's Richard III offered his kingdom for a horse, but nowadays he probably would have to up his bid. At the famed Keeneland Association yearling sales in Lexington, Ky., last week, British Betting Tycoon Robert Sangster, 46, who has parlayed a shrewd interest in horseflesh and an oddsmaker's understanding of the business into a stable of 400 Thoroughbreds, paid $4.25 million for a 15-month-old colt. It was the highest price ever for a race horse at auction. Sangster outbid Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid el Maktoum, Dubai's Defense Minister and the heir apparent...
Jerome Robbins, the company's other master choreographer, took a shrewd course of action: instead of struggling with a long, note-ridden work, he picked out some small pieces and came up with Four Chamber Works, a winner, even though it has a rough start. Musically, Septet is a droning harangue, and Robbins' setting looks like a Balanchine copybook. The most ambitious sequence is a pas de trois for three very strong dancers, Merrill Ashley, Sean Lavery and Mel Tomlinson. Sleek, vigorous, boldly plastic, it is a kind of message to portentous choreographers like Glen Tetley and Choo...
...very venturesome adventure picture that almost four decades of cold war have made all too familiar. The second, however, is airborne, an extravagant flight into the realm of special visual effects. For the film's producer-director-star, Clint Eastwood, it represents an attempt to arrange a shrewd encounter of a new kind, with the young audience that likes things that go whoosh in the night...
...profoundly favored place. No oil, of course. Oil was the geological dumb luck of certain desert peoples. But Lebanon had beauty and protective fastnesses in its mountains. Shrewd and unusual people found refuge there, sects like the Maronite Christians and the Druzes. Lebanon was never really a nation in the ordinary sense, but a sort of charmed collection of tribes. Its pace in the old days was a delight. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who has written about Lebanon since 1946, remembers the hospitality of the countryside, the farmers in their fruit groves forcing a stranger to accept gifts of grapes...