Word: shrewd
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...Joan Didion wrote once in a shrewd essay, "the corruption and venality and restrictiveness of Hollywood have become...firm tenets of American social faith-and of Hollywood's own image of itself." Perry is a film maker who generally works far from Hollywood, but temperamentally and intellectually he is at the very center of the system Didion so deftly described...
...effect is dazzling, reminiscent of the British film Dead of Night (1946) that resolved itself as one dream enveloped by another. Each episode of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is consistently amusing and often hilariously shrewd. The film is a miniature Decameron woven together by a shot-repeated several times-of the six characters walking briskly along a country road. They are pilgrims in a bucolic purgatory, condemned by Bunuel for their militant mediocrity...
...result is the exhaustive effort of a New York-intellectual brain with an obvious leftward slant trying to comprehend the phenomenon of a Methodist from South Dakota and a shrewd dealer of the Wad running against each other for President. Mailer remains throughout skeptical, pedantic, perceptive, and, in spite of himself, expressive of his admiration for all characters in the principled or unprincipled pursuit of their goals...
...valley during snow-free summer months, believes that the primitive art was inscribed between 1800 B.C. and 1500 B.C. Thus the carvings belong "not to prehistory but to protohistory-that period of roughly 2,000 years between prehistoric times and recorded history." De Lumley's dating involved shrewd detective work in museums. The short, triangular dagger blades portrayed in many of the engravings, for instance, closely resemble artifacts already identified as products of early Bronze Age (1800 B.C.-1500 B.C.) civilizations in the Rhone Valley and Swiss lake villages. Other daggers with either oval or elongated blades, concave edges...
Died. Miriam Hopkins, 69, sprightly blonde star of dozens of movies in the 1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in New York. A vivacious talker with a honeyed Georgia drawl off-camera, Hopkins on-screen cast shrewd eyes on her leading men. One of her early hits was Director Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). She heightened her stardom with the title role in Hollywood's first full-length Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp (1935), and the controversial These Three (1936). One of Hopkins' major professional regrets: turning down the female lead in It Happened...