Word: slyness
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Richard Nixon, on the other hand, had aptly demonstrated his scheming slyness in numerous productions before undertaking his final masterpiece. In Checkers, You Won't Have Dick Nixon to Kick Around Anymore, and his documentary classic, To Kill the 22nd Amendment, Nixon developed an acute sense of reptilian manipulation...
...opposition's book on Reagan (by now a public document) is that he is always underestimated. That too is a mark of the natural man ?the fox taken for a fool who winds up taking the taker. Yet there is no Volpone slyness in Reagan. If he has been underestimated, it may be that he gives every sign of underestimating himself?not as a tactic, but honestly. So wholly without self-puffery is he that he places the burden of judging him entirely on others, and since he is wholly without self-puffery, the judgment is almost always favorable...
Alan Bates put an angrier edge on Simon when he originated the part in London, but there is much to be said for the sweet slyness (and the dead eyes) of Courtenay's interpretation. He gets the same mileage out of Playwright Gray's powerfully witty lines, which are the source of Simon's charm. Their inventiveness and stylishness keep the other characters from flying out of his orbit while keeping audiences riveted in their seats and even caring about the s.o.b...
...piled out of the bus near the center of town, thanking the surfers and congratulating each other on our slyness. As we walked towards Tijuana's business district, we were joined by a young-looking American hitchhiker who had a pack and a bed-roll strapped to his back. He was a freshman at Stanford (prepped at Andover) who wanted to see as much of the coast as he could before school started. He stayed with...
...held responsible for their collective failure. Within the all-too-Hasty-Pudding concept of the whole production, some of the cast members fill their parts quite competently. Chris Baker, though ridiculously miscast as Mosca, delivers a good comic aside, moves comfortably around the stage, and neatly captures the slyness of the character. Peter Goldberg's Volpone is one-note throughout, since he is physically unable to simulate death-bed sickliness; otherwise Goldberg achieves a sadly uncomic lechery that fills the role, but hardly realizes...