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...will say, however, that the depth of each vignette was breathtaking. Only a shrewd observer of the political scene could've crafted such incisive jabs at members (and pets) of the fallen administration...
...saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection, My Hard Bargain, plays fair with both the churchly and the wicked -- middling people in an everyday predicament. His story is shrewd and wryly amusing...
...they would have to make some sense of its "proposition that all men are created equal." He reached into the childhood memories of his audience, to all those Fourth of July orations they had absorbed. He was appealing from one set of prejudices to a nobler set, as a shrewd pol should...
...first time in nearly six months, he recently left Ravello. Paramount persuaded him to go to Hollywood for a press jamboree to promote Tim Robbins' shrewd, bumptious political film Bob Roberts. Vidal co-stars as an aging liberal Senator, and he does it with authority and panache. His reviews have been excellent, and the ham in him loves it. "I keep saying, 'John Houseman is dead. Maybe I'll get those nice parts...
Even with such disadvantages, there are profitable recycling operations. Three years ago, J.J. Hoyt, recycling manager at the U.S. Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, took over a solid-waste disposal program that had been costing taxpayers $1 million a year. A shrewd businessman, Hoyt was sensitive to hauling managers' needs and negotiated lucrative deals. Now, says one Navy officer, "not a tin can or newspaper falls to the ground on base." This year Hoyt's program is earning close to $800,000. "The key is knowing the market," he says...