Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Solid-Gold Mogul Music-and-movie hitmaker David Geffen made a shrewd move in April when he sold his record label to MCA for about $550 million of that company's stock. Just seven months later, when Japanese giant Matsushita bought MCA, the value of Geffen's holdings zoomed to $700 million. It's all in the timing...
...guarantees that people will buy tickets or snatch up the videocassette. He didn't need a plastic surgeon or a movie-agent Mephistopheles to become Arnold; his eminence is a triumph of the will. Even if he weren't a celebrity, he would be richer than Webster; his shrewd entrepreneurship and real estate investments have made him tens of millions. As for the girl, he got her: Maria Shriver, NBC newscaster and Kennedy niece. When he is not chumming with the clan in Hyannis Port, he is stumping for George Bush or serving as chairman of the President's Council...
...knows the shrewd and innovative Chilean entrepreneur, however, expects the loss of the Iraqi account to set him back for long. With a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, Cardoen first worked in the U.S. and Chile as a mining engineer. He founded the company that bears his name in 1977, after Chile's former President, General Augusto Pinochet, whose repressive government was the object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate...
...HOMECOMING. Harold Pinter's signature drama of menacing silences and family mistrust enjoys a shrewd 25th-anniversary revival at Harvard's American Repertory Theater, acted by esteemed-in-the-business veterans Jeremy Geidt and Christine Estabrook and up-and-comers Robert Stanton and Steven Skybell...
...though with diminishing patience, as if having an uncanny ear and using it were a bit too easy. This drives the author a little crazy when he thinks about it, and he thumps down a precept that could be carved in stone: "Dialogue is character is plot." In a shrewd book published last June, On Writing, he approvingly notes that John O'Hara, a novelist he admires above almost all others, would tell a whole chapter with dialogue -- a husband and wife, for instance, punching with their words, counterpunching, drawing blood. Similarly, novelist Higgins will let a conversation...