Word: shrewd
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...ambiguity is out. It is so last season. Spain is the new France, gold the new pink. And while it may be a bit uncomfortable at first, the only way to fully solve a problem and move past it is to face it directly and not passively. As my shrewd red-haired friend says, the most important thing we learn from James Bond movies is that you only live twice. And you should only hit the snooze button once...
...greets Wagener in a red dressing gown and scarlet slippers with turned-up toes. To anyone familiar with office politics, this is a calculated rudeness. Wagener does not seem to get the message. Ever the intellectual snob, he sees Göring as a mental patient rather than a shrewd realist who knows the difference between theatricality and self-delusion...
...surprisingly modern in his self-interest. Like Rose he became a player-manager with a mouthful of statistics, mostly about his own achievements. Like Rose he was a headlong competitor whose determination made him exceed more gifted men. And like Rose he grew wealthy with shrewd investments, a high salary and the willingness to endorse a variety store of products: cigars, cigarettes, overcoats, underwear, suspenders and a pepper-upper called Nuxated Iron...
Anyone who stops to look closely can always spot one kid who seems to hold himself apart from the crowd. There is just something about him: a shrewd look in the eye, a certain alertness in his carriage. This summer the movie analogy to that promising lad is called Real Genius...
Speaking of misbehavior, Diana offers some startling judgments, none based on anything even remotely resembling scientific evidence, but collected impressions of a shrewd eye. Heterosexual hanky-panky, says she, reached its peak during the Carter years, even as the power brokers were seen praying more openly and often. "These days," says Diana, "gay life is far more extensive in the Government than is reported...