Word: shrewd
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Television programs of the 80s touched the heart. From Vicki, everyone's favorite daughter-robot from "Small Wonder," to the dim but lovable Rose Nylon from "Golden Girls," to the naive yet shrewd Balki Bartokomous from "Perfect Strangers," the characters of touchy-feely 80s sitcoms were remarkably diverse. But were their shows as versatile? Pairings of several of the decade's television masterpieces may force American cultural scholars and historians to dub the period the "Imitation...
...dean] was a very shrewd fellow and started to interview me, and he asked what I liked to do and what I didn't like to do, and I could see that I was giving the wrong answers all the time," recalls Bott, who did not favor dissecting animals or chemistry...
...just over, and his friends and family have gathered at a quiet bar in the Bronx to forgive his ghost and congratulate his widow. So Alice McDermott sets down at the outset of Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 280 pages; $22), a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes...
...years, many believed William Clay Ford Jr. to be predestined to reign behind Ford's trademark blue oval nameplate. Genteel, analytical and quietly shrewd, he's a Civil War buff with degrees from Princeton and M.I.T. He joined Ford in 1979 and performed admirably in numerous executive posts, from assembly to product planning to chairman of Ford Switzerland. But in 1994, when he was named chairman of the automaker's powerful finance committee (which oversees the purse strings), his ascension seemed more certain. That promotion required him to resign his operating role within the company, prompting his move...
...same time as the audience," Costa-Gavras warns, "He doesn't have time to put events into perspective." Gavras makes an excellent point. Mad City could also have profited from a little perspective. Its creators failed to notice that they themselves had crossed a line--the one that separates shrewd commentary from polemic."Photos courtesy of Warner Bros,TWO RING CIRCUS: DUSTIN HOFFMAN (left), shines as a hard-boiled reporter who exploits the story of a simple-minded janitor's (JOHN TRAVOLTA, below) revolt against society...