Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contain an element that Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril calls "glorious uncertainty." Anything can happen, as Carril's teams have proved season after remarkable season against superior opposition. But not this superior. "This is not a great team," says Carril. "This is the greatest team ever." Don Nelson, the + shrewd and artful coach of the Golden State Warriors, whose son Donn is helping to coach Marciulionis and the Lithuanians, agrees. "The once-in-a- lifetime game is not going to happen," he says. "The Dream Team will not allow any second shots. Even if the Americans play poorly, there shouldn...
Creating a shrewd editorial mix of celebrity profiles, newsy features and provocative photos (most notoriously, last year's cover photo of a nude, very pregnant Demi Moore), Brown brought Vanity Fair high profits and nearly 1 million readers. At the same time, she made herself a figure to reckon with on the Manhattan scene: good-looking, Oxford-educated, a sometime playwright, married to Harold Evans, former editor of the Times of London and now head of Random House (yes, another Newhouse jewel...
Kids? Hmm. The stars are, frankly, a trifle mature for their roles. But ultimately the trade-off -- experienced deftness for youthful daffiness -- works to Housesitter's advantage. It never spins out of control. Hawn's shrewd ditsiness sets a lively pace, but she also finds something real and appealing in an unlikely figure. Martin's role is essentially reactive, but he has his moments, notably a hilariously infantile attempt to seduce his old flame, whom Delany plays straight as a board but much funnier...
Unfortunately, all these shrewd insights were muffled in the American debut performance by the acoustic shortcomings of the opera house at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Long sections of dialogue were indecipherable even to those seated far forward. Worse, the production -- which will tour to Washington, St. Paul, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles this summer -- is encumbered by a generally second-rate supporting cast. Part of the problem may be in attracting top-quality actors to so long a tour, for the standard is well below what is customary on the National's stages in London...
...well, "is a brigand and a fanatic, but a sly, intelligent and sophisticated one." His ruthlessness has always been paired with competence and superficial charm. "He will convince you that he is a most reasonable and sympathetic individual," says a U.S. analyst, and his political instincts are remarkably shrewd. His arrival as head of the Belgrade party in 1984 ended a rudderless period of creeping liberalization, when the communists needed to solidify their grip on power after the death of Tito."What I liked most about him was that his desk was always empty -- he knew how to work," says...