Word: shrewd
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...streams and shelter within caves in the shadow of its snow-capped peaks. Above all, the 70-mile-long valley has been the hideout and headquarters of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic 30-year-old Mujahedin leader who has united more than 5,000 squabbling resistance fighters under his shrewd and well-organized leadership...
...Democracy is a flawed novel-sometimes portentous, sometimes over-directed by the author-it is also very fast and shrewd, one of the funniest books of the year. Much of the time, Didion seems to be laughing at her own romantic yearnings. Her heroine resembles a paper cutout Jackie Kennedy. Inez Christian Victor is the daughter of a rich, mercantile Hawaiian clan and the wife of a dashing Democratic Senator who wants to be President. In her daily life, Inez must contend with a randy husband, his groupies ("Girls like that come with the life") and standard-issue disaffected children...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. has never had much of a reputation. As capital of the most diminutive state in the Union, and home of Brown University--which shrewd young people recognize as an ephemeral fad and old folks remember as the school you went to if you couldn't get in anywhere else--it even lost its minor-league hockey team, the Rhode Island Reds, a few years back...
...gone stale is interesting. But in the end it hurts a novel in which there is no adult male with substance enough to cast a shadow. This is true even for minor characters; an interracial couple friendly to Jessie and Carll consists of a black wife who is a shrewd, forceful lawyer and a white husband so nearly nondescript as to be invisible...
...joined the firm in 1963 after working as an arbitrager with A.G. Becker, a stock brokerage. Eventually, he moved into securities trading and built it into one of Lehman's most profitable areas, at the same time making a reputation for himself as a sharp, shrewd analyst of financial markets...