Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprised by all this? I was. Clinton has usually been equal to the moment. He has never been eloquent, merely verbal, and he has never--how to put it?--stunned us with his brilliance. But he has often been shrewd, and he has always shown the skills of the survivor. He has always, too, acted the public part of the presidency with ease and burly vanity. The other night on TV I saw a videotape of Clinton walking along the White House lawn, his hands clasped thoughtfully behind his back, his face a shaded mask of contemplation. In physical attitude...
...result is a shrewd portrait, sly, casual yet palpably authentic, of the principal ways members of any minority try to respond to an uncomprehending world. Each learns something useful from the other, and we, incidentally, learn something believable and warming about modern Native life and manners. Smoke Signals could be more complex and compelling narratively, but there's a sweet freshness in its voice that's worth heeding...
MIKE WALLACE & CO. 60 Minutes graybeards stifle bid to clone the show. Self-imitation isn't flattering--or shrewd...
What marked Jordan and set him apart from all the other great players of his era were a number of things: his great natural athletic ability, honed every year to a fine degree as he worked to improve his game; his high intelligence; his shrewd knowledge of the game; and his acute awareness of the strengths and weaknesses--psychological as well as physical--of his opponents. In the end, he emerged as the rarest of players: one without a weakness--and a player who thrived and hungered for big games. To Danny Ainge, who played against him and coached against...
What most fans saw was the balletlike quality of his drives to the basket, and what basketball professionals, coaches and scouts saw was the complete quality of his game, the almost perfect fundamentals he brought every night and the shrewd sense of each game's tempo, which made him almost a coach on the floor. When Jordan was at his prime, it was common among some professional basketball people to joke about the Carolina program and to zing Dean Smith for, it was presumed, suppressing the greatness of Jordan's game during his college years. But the reverse was true...