Word: shrewdly
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Salinas' delicate handling of the popular Zapatista demands has so far proved politically shrewd. He salvaged his reformist image, and his handpicked P.R.I. presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio, retains a 60%-to-27% lead over his closest rival. But the policy could still backfire. There is widespread speculation that Camacho, a respected former mayor of Mexico City who was passed over in the presidential sweepstakes, might use the Zapatista negotiation as a springboard to an independent presidential bid. Many ruling party faithful blame Salinas' concessions in Chiapas for a sharp increase in strikes and demonstrations across the nation. Indians...
Caserta and his fellow Spectrum officers are also accusing Sculley of concocting his charges as part of a shrewd "exit strategy" that would release him from his employment contract. "He wanted out. He didn't relate to us. He was like a fish out of water," Caserta told TIME last week. "He needed someone to attack so that he could get out of this gracefully...
Witness to the Execution (airing Sunday, Feb. 13) is not flawless, but it is a shrewd and timely examination of TV sensationalism, which is not the same thing as being sensational. Jessica Traynor (Sean Young), the top program executive for Tycom Entertainment, a pay-per-view operation "somewhere in a 500-channel television universe," is searching for a blockbuster programming event. "We're in trouble, Jess," says her boss (Len Cariou). "Movies don't work; screen's still too small. Sports is dying. The sex boom is over. Where the hell are we going...
Frank Zappa surely would have appreciated -- indeed, relished -- the irony ! that his death last week was, as the old show-biz line has it, a shrewd career move. The musical iconoclast, best known for his work with the seminal 1960s rock band the Mothers of Invention, was in many ways the prisoner of his own raffish image: hirsute hippie freak; countercultural sire of prototypical Valley Girl Moon Unit Zappa and her siblings Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva; opinionated crank ("AIDS is a CIA plot"); and First Amendment scourge of Tipper Gore. With his death from prostate cancer, a few days short...
...Todd Whitman, declared quite openly that he had used $500,000 to pay off Black ministers in New Jersey so they wouldn't press their congregations to the polls. If Rollins had been enjoying bacon and eggs at home and talking privately to his wife about his shenanigans, some shrewd investigative reporting might have unearthed the story. But Rollins was in Washington D.C., and he was eating with a gaggle of journalists at a public occasion when he casually revealed his plot...