Word: shrewd
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...Baker's latest ploy succeeds, it could be one more significant step toward an Arab-Israeli peace -- a prospect that has moved from the unthinkable to the merely improbable as a result of his shrewd and tireless prodding of both sides. The Secretary has repeatedly demonstrated a flair for problem solving, not only by launching the Middle East talks but also by working out an agreement with Congress on Nicaragua in 1989 and by helping stitch together last year's coalition against Saddam Hussein. Baker may not fashion foreign policy single-handedly -- certainly not in an Administration where the President...
...slump since 1989. At the end of the primary campaign, Bush showed up at a "town meeting" in Goffstown in the company of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who presumably was brought along to impress the crowds in a way that the President of the U.S. might not. It was not a shrewd piece of media work: Schwarzenegger the Terminator, an action figure out of Hollywood, proclaimed fantasy at a moment when voters had gathered to look for something real -- a little something in the way of presidential leadership. The resplendently overmuscled image of Arnold blinded the audience to the image...
...atmosphere of persecution, betrayal and paranoia. The number of conservative academics fired by the lefty thought police, by contrast, is zero. There has been heckling. There have been baseless accusations of racism. And certainly there is no shortage of the zealots, authoritarians and scramblers who view PC as a shrewd career move or as a vent for their own frustrations...
...which opposites warily circle, passionately and adulterously engage, and ruefully part. Then there's the memory piece, in which a man comes to grips with the dark, dangerous and deeply buried secret of his childhood and by so doing achieves peace and self- reconciliation. There's comedy too: shrewd bumpkin goes to New York City and shows them city slickers a thing or two. Finally, there's a teacher- student relationship that leads to some mutually instructive, emotionally gratifying male bonding...
...visually as Conroy's book is lush verbally. There is something tidal -- that is to say, patiently inexorable -- in its rhythms. And as Tom Wingo, protagonist of all the movies Streisand is sweeping along on the imagistic current she has unleashed, Nick Nolte gives a force-of-nature performance -- shrewd and gullible, bitter and innocent, bigger than life but still in touch with...