Word: shrewd
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...says shrewd Barber Conable, an upstate New York Congressman: "He is a good politician. The realities of power are still against him, but he has immense personal good will up here. He knows the House." When Ford was given a list of wavering members on the strip-mining-veto vote, he glanced over the dozen names. "That one, that one and that one are a waste of time," he said almost instinctively. The three were scratched, and Ford began phoning the others in his successful effort to avoid an override...
Partly this is due to a shrewd adaptation. Peter Benchley's novel spent too much time on dry land, plodding around Irving Wallace country, reinvestigating such tired phenomena as the uneasy marriage, the adulterous wife, the snaky seducer. In the movie, most of this lallygagging is eliminated. Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) must still fight the town's mayor, who is fearful that closing the beaches after the first shark attacks will ruin his resort's economy. He still joins forces with Quint, the professional shark killer (Robert Shaw, employing an ornate accent of indeterminate origin...
...made a good object lesson but a slightly unsatisfying ending. French Connection II gives Popeye Doyle another shot, a real fighting chance at his nemesis. Allowing for the arguable proposition that any sequel was necessary, French Connection His one that is tough, shrewd and fast. The movie is exciting, even frightening, but never loses its strong naturalistic grip. It also represents the most assured work its director John Frankenheimer has done since Seconds...
...what he calls "the sensitive weave" of the work's overall design. His Albrecht in Giselle, for example, is a coltish kid in love with the idea of love, touchingly unable to comprehend that, as a nobleman, he just cannot have this terrific peasant girl. He excels at shrewd, straightforward comedy. In Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, the dancers appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps his greatest tour de force so far is Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme...
...Connally's unlimited financial resources and shrewd political mind will help to offset those weaknesses. Through all his troubles. Connally stood far above the gray men of Nixon's administration. In a fight between the leaders of the poles of the party. Reagan and Rockefeller, he might be an ideal candidate to step into the vacuum in the middle...