Word: shrewd
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Weeks ago, when I wrote that I'd changed my mind, an irritatingly shrewd reader e-mailed me (I'm quoting from memory): "You have come to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons, and because of that, you will one day revert to your old, erroneous view...
...team was relatively young. There would be years and years to come where we would breeze through the league to hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy again without competition in sight. Although looking back at the '90s, it is apparent that this was actually the case, a shrewd move by Knicks management in the summer of 1991 resulted in a heated rivalry that consumed most of the following decade in basketball...
...John and Algy collide, a series of crises ensue, crises that threaten to spoil their romantic intentions-Jack for Gwendolen Fairfax and Algernon for his intended bride Cecily Cardew. Of the younger female interpretations, Lauren Waisbren gives the role of Cecily Cardew, Worthing's ward, a more ditzy than shrewd rendering, though her phrasing, timing and diction are all impeccable. As her mirrored comrade (and adversary, depending on the scene) Gwendolen, Jennifer Moxin puts her considerable comic vitality to fine work here in what is sometimes mildly bizarre exaggeration, sometimes farcical explosiveness. These two work particularly well together and they...
...first painstakingly built up with her voice alone. When Hollywood finally slammed its doors in her drug-raddled face, she moved into concert halls and sang her way back to superstardom. An ideal biography would have had something memorable to say about that molten mezzo voice and the shrewd musical mind behind...
...name a few) "solitary" and "brutish," Hobbes says. At the mention of Hobbes, Harvard manliness expert Harvey Mansfield could not contain his smile. Estranged Harvard political theorist Peter Berkowitz went on point, edging to the front of his seat and whispering to his neighbors. Hobbes is a shrewd interpreter of human nature, and the professorial set was glad to see his name invoked in support of their program...