Word: shrewd
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...rambunctious sophistication of Stanley Donen's direction makes the amatory adventures whistle by as fast as the gunplay. Writers Huyck and Katz, who collaborated with George Lucas on the screenplay for American Graffiti, are unashamedly infatuated with the myths and romances of old Hollywood but are shrewd enough not to mimic them. Their writing is affectionate, not slavish, and is full...
...gave Peretz final authority in the dispute was a clause saying "the seller will serve the buyer's best interests." The agreement was that Harrison would stay on for a three year grace period while Peretz learned the ropes. This arrangement, Peretz says, caused one of his friends, a "shrewd" businessman, to say, "This kind of two-headed monster will never last...
...Shrewd Cookie. This is high-if unintentional-comedy, and so is Mo's account of her newlywed days, with her methodical husband simultaneously tending her and the unraveling Watergate coverup. Dean does not tell her why he is called back to Washington during two attempts at a honeymoon, and Mo does not ask: "It was just one of the many elements of his work for the President, and neither of us wanted to talk all night about what he had been doing all day." Besides, the role of dutiful wife requires pride in her young take-charger: "I could...
Such soaring naiveté from so shrewd a cookie is hard to buy. Mo's defense of her husband as the contrite hero who saved the Republic singlehanded is no easier to purchase. Yet with the help of TIME Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey, Mo has fashioned something more than a palpitating apologia. She was, after all, an accidental witness to some high crimes and misdemeanors, and her views of the pressure-cooked conformity of the Nixon White House are mordant and telling. After a circumspect New Year's Eve party with two other uptight Administration couples, Mo notes...
...Johnson), is strong and a good shot. It is true that he is a little short on smarts, but Blood, his shaggy pal, more than compensates for that. Though he is able to talk only to his master, his brain is as shrewd as his nose...