Word: cunningness
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The book and the movie, which stars Sam Neill and Laura Dern, are essentially theme-park rides -- say, EPCOT Center's Universe of Energy, the one with the Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs -- which Crichton has given a cunning tweak. The novel is also a dark musing on the hubris that can...
It is a match made in Washington: James Carville, the cunning Cajun who strategized Bill Clinton into the White House, and Mary Matalin, the tart- tongued political director who hoped to do the same for George Bush. They are one of the capital's legendary items -- and last week they...
THESE WORDS ARE FROM THE EPIGRAPH OF ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX, a book that Bill Clinton has spoken of fondly as his appreciation of F.D.R.'s style of governance has grown. The President has already proved adept at following the dark side of Machiavelli's injunction: during the...
29 THE POLITICAL INTEREST His cunning will be tested
Sommersby, about a young Tennessee husband who goes away to the Civil War and comes home a changed man, is based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre. The Vanishing, the tale of a young Seattle woman who goes away for a beer and never comes home...