Word: shrewd
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...scholar, D.T. Suzuki; and a little afterward he found himself on a set where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without subtitles ("Gets in the way of the picture," the master pronounces). Francis Ford Coppola is "like a little boy, living entirely in his imagination with...
...grand vision, though not without risk. In a series of shrewd moves that netted him an estimated $22 billion fortune and the nickname "the Carnegie of Calcutta," Mittal, 54, has spent much of his career buying run-down steel facilities in far-flung locations like Romania and Kazakhstan and returning them to profitability. But ISG is a different animal. It was formed in 2002 from the guts of the bankrupt LTV steel business. Under the watchful eye of Ross, the firm, which employs 15,000 people, grew into one of the U.S.'s major steel producers by acquiring money-losers...
...family could hardly expect to protect Mary's privacy once she began running her father's operations at the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign last year. A shrewd problem solver, she is considered one of his closest political advisers. Still, some conservatives were furious that Kerry went out of his way to mention Mary's lesbianism because they saw it as a way to embarrass the Republican ticket or alienate it from its evangelical base. It was an "attempt to suppress a certain segment of Christian votes," says Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate and a leading advocate...
...sure, De Antonio's jubilant bias sometimes plays him false. Nixon is too often seen stumbling over a foot or a phrase, and sometimes satire descends to the level of easy derision ... But when it works, De Antonio's sense of juxtaposition can be lethal ... [He] is also shrewd enough to know when Nixon is his own worst enemy, and he devotes a long section of Millhouse to the Checkers speech alone. Reciting his list of assets, attempting to sound humble and folksy ... all the while struggling grimly to look natural, Nixon seems to emerge as a kind of bunko...
...most of the foragers are back with their offerings. A shrewd question, quietly put to a government minister after a press conference, will lead to a major piece on late-term abortion policy. More text messages confirm the story on Indonesian terrorism is on its way. But a call from New Zealand correspondent Claire Harvey changes everything: Helen Clark's government has announced it's cutting ties with Israel following the jailing of two alleged Mossad spies for passport fraud. Whittaker's thrilled: "I think we've got a story that will get us out of trouble." Harvey rings back...