Word: shrewd
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Kuby and Thiele have chosen, with a shrewd eye for the ironic contrast, to present their moral horror story as a bubbly champagne farce. For at least two-thirds of the film, the thick-necked Schlotbarone bounce about hilariously, like a chorus line of caricature capitalists. In fact, the weakness of the picture as social satire is that too often it tickles where it ought to jab. Only in the last reel does the customer stop giggling, as in the bottom of the champagne glass he suddenly sees something hard to swallow. The moviemakers make him swallow it anyway. Oddly...
Supporting this maneuver is Humphrey's strong majority in the state party organization (six out of ten district chairmen announced for him, as did 35 out of 71 county chairmen), but they stand less than an even chance to outwit State Chairman Pat Lucey, shrewd mainstay of Kennedy's organization...
...built the walls of Megiddo, Archaeologist Yadin has also begun the King's rehabilitation. Reading between the lines of the Bible, he says, one can conclude that Ahab was the most effective King of Israel after Solomon. Ahab defeated the invading Assyrians. His marriage to Jezebel was a shrewd diplomatic move, since she was a princess of the powerful neighboring kingdom of Phoenicia. The record is not clear, but apparently Ahab's mistake, in regard to his later reputation, was to oppose a religious faction that instigated a rebellion against his son Joram and then put itself...
Publisher Samuel Irving Newhouse, 64, has good reason for believing that journalism is far from a dying profession. After four decades of shrewd trading (TIME, April 6), his flourishing empire is worth about $175 million, includes 14 newspapers, five TV and three radio stations, Street & Smith Publications Inc. and Condé Nast Publications Inc. (Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour). To keep it flourishing, the empire at his death will go into a nonprofit educational trust, the Newhouse Foundation; the business will be run by his two sons, S.I. Jr., 32, and Don, 30. This week the first fruit of the plan...
...first lieutenant in World War II and graduating from Southern Methodist University, joined the First National in 1951 as an assistant cashier, became a top lending officer in the bank's oil department. Directors picked him for the job because they wanted a combination of youth and shrewd banking knowledge to guide First National in its increasing competition with Republican National...