| 单词 | canny |
| 例句 | “Ophelia, such a course would be vain and dangerous. Claudius is more canny that you know. For proof, I have important news from Hamlet.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He waited, canny enough not to commit himself until his wife had agreed to follow suit. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Now he was blocked and it made him restless, possibly less canny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I considered how canny my father was, despite being a fool. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Mr. Sharpe was sufficiently canny to see that Bono attempted to direct his attention elsewhere, towards the cook, who was laboring over beets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I don’t know if that’s because we’re considered cannier than men, or braver, or bouncier, or just less likely to survive and therefore aren’t worth the extra petrol and parachute packing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In their circle, it was held to be no disgrace to import goods illegally, but rather sharp practice was accounted a sign of canny business acumen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Anyone who would keep pace with your craftiness must be a canny dealer.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was also canny enough to know when to let up on the crew, when to flatter them, when to implore them, when to joke around with them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But he was strong, and canny with his pennies: somehow he saved up enough for a cow — Our Cow. not six years old, and strong enough to plow. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z But she smiles her canny little smile in a way that makes me think it’s not a bad notion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The opiate of Zeus’s daughter bore this canny power. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He or she is a deep thinker, canny like a fox, inspirational, and in many cases the toughest person in the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even without such, er, serendipitous interactions, “Minus 16” is a canny addition by Ailey’s artistic director, Robert Battle. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey?s Ohad Naharin Premiere at City Center - Review 2011-12-11T22:45:45Z It is satisfying to witness these women’s evolutions, their stamina, wit and canny determination: enmeshed in multitiered battles for the survival of those principles for which so very, very many sacrificed themselves. Review | In Lara Prescott’s ‘The Secrets We Kept,’ the CIA takes a novel approach to Cold War spycraft 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Iconic pieces include Bruce Nauman's Green Light Corridor, where visitors must squeeze through a narrow aperture: a canny manipulation of our relationship with his work. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Ms. Aguilar suggests canny artists have gravitated toward drawing the meme of the moment in order to expose more potential fans to their work. The Strawberry Dress That Ate TikTok 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The real guy – for the half hour I am with him, at least – is canny, patient, riled only once. Al Pacino: ‘What’s the point of quitting?’ 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Though an alluring voice, elegantly deployed, is an advantage, a canny reading of the lines in time to the music seldom fails in its effect. Elaine Stritch and Other Matrons of ?Night Music? 2010-07-23T02:12:00Z Coulter is normally a canny performer, and she often seems to court, and even to revel in, a degree of abuse from her detractors. Please Kill the Celebrity Roast 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s an exceedingly difficult task, and no one has a better track record at it than Lorne Michaels, the canny producer and longtime star maker of “Saturday Night Live.” On Comedy: Jon Stewart’s Role in Developing Stars 2014-04-16T21:19:38Z Fleabag segues with canny purposefulness among earnest wistfulness and dismissive flippancy, scorching pain and echoing, hollow silence, giving equal weight to each. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Gemma Bodinetz, the Everyman and Playhouse's artistic director, is taking a real risk with Anthology, but it's a canny one that makes both aesthetic and economic sense. Arts cuts mean theatres must learn to share the stage 2010-09-30T15:27:00Z At times he has acted as a canny tourist of regional styles, hearing the pop potential of reggae in “Mother and Child Reunion” or paying direct homage to Louisiana zydeco in “That Was Your Mother.” Review: Paul Simon, Still Evolving, Is Saying Goodbye 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Reading from a thick cache of papers, he spoke in what at times was a kind of rhapsodic, canny prose-poetry, like one of his lyrics or an outtake from his 2004 memoir, “Chronicles, Volume One.” At Grammys Event, Bob Dylan Speech Steals the Show 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z “How did a politician as tough and canny as Richard Nixon allow himself to be brought down by a ‘third-rate burglary’?” Robert Redford to Produce a Documentary About Watergate 2012-04-02T22:05:31Z A lot of that talk is a distraction and an annoyance on the order of construction noise—and yet that superfluous and distracting vocal drone is the canny intellectual underpinning of Wiseman’s movie. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The film also highlights Cromwell’s devotion to Cardinal Woolsey, his mentor, a canny clergyman doomed by his inability to fix Henry’s problems. PBS adaptation of ‘Wolf Hall’ fit for a king 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z A canny mimic, he also creates works inspired by German Medieval art, the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, Marc Chagall and folk art. The Paintings Are Delicate. The Show’s a Shambles. 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z That coup shows how a canny administrator can affect the equation. The New York Philharmonic Picks Jaap van Zweden 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z With cold turkey off the menu for us working folk, using monitoring apps such as RescueTime, Apple’s Screen Time and Google Digital Wellbeing can seem like a canny way to cut down on phone use. Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone? 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z I grew up in thuh canny and seriously do not remember this ham. In This Corner of Maryland, Holidays Mean a Stuffed Ham 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Another canny segment shows her repeating, over and over, that the album is her “most personal” yet to various members of the press. Review: 'Gaga: Five Foot Two' Shows a Superstar at Her Most Vulnerable 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z With canny contouring and pacing from Mr. Tritle, the singers indulged lustily in the drama and emotion. Music Review: Musica Sacra at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle ? Review 2011-10-16T22:47:40Z He writes that military leaders “intrigued with parts of the press to destabilize or frustrate the elected politicians whom many of them essentially despised,” and that Lloyd George “had long been a canny media operator.” Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Figaro was more the posh boy doing a summer job rather than the canny barber of Seville who in effect engineered the Count's marriage to Rosina in the first place. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z A small woman with a two-toned pageboy and an open, unsentimental manner, she is an ideal traveling companion: a wise and canny guide, an impetuous risk-taker, a trusted friend. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He's back on his own again, not that you could tell from this talented multi-instrumentalist's canny knack of sounding like a full band is at work. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z But the film’s effectiveness lies in its canny balance of the oversize and the minute. Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Much conventional health wisdom is actually commercialised wisdom: the result of canny marketing campaigns or industry-funded studies. Take it with a pinch of salt – the food marketing myths we’ve swallowed whole 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z “The wealthy collectors who spent millions on those fake wines were canny fellows in their businesses,” Hellman writes. The stuff of the best 2017 wine reads: Everyman advice, a con man, a legendary region 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Which is fine: Ms. Cholodenko’s film, which she wrote with Stuart Blumberg, is so canny in its insights and so agile in its negotiation of complex emotions that it deserves to stand on its own. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z But a big part of me thinks that Mr. Laib is a canny, professional purveyor of New Age hokum, which he dresses up in suave, Postminimalist style. Art Review: Wolfgang Laib’s ‘Pollen From Hazelnut,’ at MoMA 2013-01-31T22:54:04Z That sensation arises often in this canny documentary about a baffling topic. ‘People’s Republic of Desire’ Review: A Virtual Craze Makes Actual Cash 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z "I was canny enough at the time to realise that the flat Manchester accent makes comedy funnier and drama more intense," says Warren. Coronation Street: 50 years on and still the pride of the north-west 2010-12-09T15:34:00Z The filmmakers' approach may be a canny box office move, allowing viewers to embrace the movie whether or not they support Thatcher's politics. 'The Iron Lady' shows Thatcher still divides Brits 2011-12-21T11:12:16Z Since then, it all looks to have been plain sailing: a canny blend of multiplex blockbusters with classy human dramas; an Oscar for her pitch-perfect impression of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator. Cate Blanchett: ‘I used to be very socially awkward’ 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z This, combined with the oblique 5/4 time signature, instils a jittery sense of something moving at the periphery of your attention, perfectly in keeping with Carpenter's canny use of widescreen framing to create menace. From Goblin to Morricone: the art of horror movie music 2011-08-18T22:00:02Z But what if it favours those who are nice to check-in staff, happen to encounter a hospitality worker in a good mood or are canny enough to hit a market just before it closes? Isn’t it the best to be given an unexpected treat, offer or upgrade for free? | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Through that casting directive, “Men on Boats” became a canny deconstruction of period machismo, a reminder that ostensible theatrical stunts can reap big creative dividends. Review: A Voyage of Teachable Moments in ‘India Pale Ale’ 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z One of the canniest things about the Wick films is how they riff on Reeves’ public image. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The movies he made in China showed him as a canny comedian, whether he was in the midst of a fight scene or just reciting canned dialogue. Jackie Chan: The Fists, the Fury, the Oscar 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z His most canny strategy in directing the movie, which would be his swan song, was to treat “Silk Stockings” as a dance musical — and dance itself as a form of liberation. On DVD, an American in Paris (and in the Soviet Union) 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The new anthology of his work, “40: A Doonesbury Retrospective,” is a big book and a canny one. Books of The Times: Panel by Panel, a Graphic Record of Our Time 2010-12-23T22:32:24Z McKay offers a fairly coherent answer, one grounded in Bale’s canny and sensitive performance. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Her attempt to fly to an Internet stranger's prom night, a canny stunt, is a logistical disaster. Kylie Jenner Struggles to Appear Real in Her New Reality Show 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But these bold, canny pictures are not portraits. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z True to her reporter’s sense of canny restraint, Ross avoids issuing judgment on the finished film—and, for that matter, on its intermediate phases. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z In The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he wedded that sincerity to a classically austere camera style that helped those early fables of bereavement weave canny spells over the mass audience. The Last Airbender: Worst Movie Epic Ever? 2010-07-01T19:50:00Z He comes off as smart and canny, as well as a bit opportunistic. Nick Denton isn’t sorry: New interview reveals more about Gawker founder’s ethics 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Behind that effort is the top exec of OmniCorp, played with canny smoothness by Michael Keaton, a character with more than a little of Steve Jobs in him. ‘RoboCop’: Remake is a blast, with more of a human side 2014-02-11T19:03:12Z This absurdist ode to paper contains none at all and is all the more resonant for the canny subversion. Jeff Colson, wizard of illusion, at Maloney Fine Art 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z It opened – with canny programming – in the runup to the last election and then transferred to the West End as David Cameron, ex-Bullingdon himself, came to power. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z It was a canny move to open in a college town away from the arms-folded industry crowds of the megamedia centers. Conan O'Brien legally prohibited from being funny 2010-04-13T19:33:00Z Kahane is too canny and self-aware to fall into that trap. Strangers on a Train: Gabriel Kahane’s Wrenching “Book of Travelers” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z But it’s hard to resist its canny allure. Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The supposedly canny Scots of the Victorian era squandered their success, not as families or individuals of course, but as a nation. To the Ends of the Earth by TM Devine ? review 2011-08-04T08:59:01Z The larger size also shows off Adams’s meticulous technique, a canny blend of traditional painting, illustration and geometry. Derrick Adams Takes Off 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z You don't hear so much about his sense of the zeitgeist, his canny grasp of psychology and the meticulous details of his musical invention. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z Leonardo A. Patterson, a globe-trotting antiquities dealer who is called canny by friends and a tomb raider by detractors, has long excelled in two areas: acquiring pre-Columbian artifacts and confounding investigators. Antiquities Dealer Leonardo Patterson Faces New Criminal Charges 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z It was as clear and canny a message as any about just which kind of dressing was really the dominant kind. Why the Suit Is the Shape of the Moment 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z This intense R&B/pop tune with complex percussion, big, Florence-like drums and a canny "oh way oh" chorus surfaced on the internet last November. Haim – review 2013-06-02T19:05:01Z Most of the recitatives — the half-spoken, half-sung dialogues that link one musical number to the next — are omitted, but plot points lost thereby are explained by captions, a canny solution. A ‘comedy’ about a seducer? Seattle Opera tackles new version of ‘Don Giovanni’ with skill and caution 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Falk had a wide-ranging career in comedy and drama, in the movies and onstage, before and during the three-and-a-half decades in which he portrayed the slovenly but canny lead on “Columbo.” Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor on ?Columbo,? Dies at 83 2011-06-24T18:55:12Z Though it seems like the perfect moment to bring back the time-and-gender-bending “Cloud Nine,” with its canny use of sexual cross-casting, I had some qualms about revisiting it. Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z As it happens, it was guitarist Patrick O'Connor, who regularly plays with Graves, but was folded into Monday's performance through a canny bit of theatricality. Shakey Graves uses all the colors at dynamic El Rey show 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z There is a guileless quality to these images, yet also something purposefully canny: a sense of suspended, matter-of-fact oddness. Great Britain, Strange and Familiar 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z But, simultaneously, it also requires a canny conduit in court. Why The Favourite should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z During the crisis in Georgia in 2008, Russia lost the propaganda war for days, Mr. McCrum writes, because it did not address the world in English, while the canny Georgians did. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z The inked areas, set off by a canny use of white space, are usually separate but occasionally overlap. Review | In the galleries: Posters as a medium for serious but jubilant communication 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z There was one good review in the Daily Mail, which declared Boyd to be "as canny as Trollope at observing family life, and better than Trollope at jokes". Hilary Boyd and the rise of 'gran-lit' 2012-11-11T00:06:16Z While close inspection reveals many themes, visual and cultural, the artworks’ overall impact relies on the canny opposition of earthy and celestial colors. Review | In the galleries: Humble materials yield extraordinary art 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, these early appearances dazzled with their decidedly self-possessed and canny approach to the material. Anna Netrebko May Be Extra, but That’s Why We Love Her 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Josie O'Rourke Bush Theatre One of the most appealing and canny virtues of arts in this country is our encouragement of new people. Arts and the new coalition government 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z He was able to push through the renovation project through prodigious fund-raising and canny politics. Reynold Levy’s New Book Names Names, Including the Met and Peter Gelb 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z He has instead hidden his canny approach to architecture and fame behind an aw-shucks persona that has operated as a kind of mask. An avuncular Frank Gehry takes to the Web in new online master class 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Matheson’s judgment, support and maturity in guiding her nervy, vainglorious husband were crucial to his canny ascent. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It was a canny choice that pulled together some of the many strands of Silverstein’s career. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z Raised on the canny work — and work ethic — of artists like Taylor Swift, Lavigne and Phair, Allison is frank, if a little abashed, about the scale of her ambitions for Soccer Mommy. Soccer Mommy Is Pushing Through the Indie-Rock Growing Pains 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z However, its figures are more likely related to a canny marketing strategy that did not rely on, or even expect, Academy approval. Oscars 2017: And your bill for the evening is … $44m 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z And it's a canny ploy, because who would dare poke holes in the accounts of youngsters suffering? It's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but for QAnon: Film spreading child trafficking hysteria is making bank 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z In time for this summer’s Olympic Games, her book is also a canny insider’s look at competitive swimming, a sport she describes as “insular, clammy, circumscribed and largely underexposed.” Books of The Times: ‘Swimming Studies,’ by Leanne Shapton 2012-07-16T21:32:18Z All this canny nomenclature seems predicated on the assumption that the larger a woman is, the more shame she experiences when shopping. Plus-Size Wars 2010-07-29T15:41:00Z Ms. Acra’s cannier clients view such collaborations as potential image enhancers. For Hollywood Actresses, a Custom Dress on the Red Carpet Shows Fashion Clout 2014-01-11T00:36:27Z Mike Bradwell's canny production doesn't rush, but is never slack, and there are terrific performances all round in an evening that buzzes with heat, flies, anger and genuine promise. The Empire 2010-04-09T21:15:00Z “Brooklyn’s Finest,” despite Mr. Fuqua’s canny use of real locations, mainly in Brownsville, is hardly a work of realism. Movie Review | 'Brooklyn?s Finest': When Troubled Cops Cross the Thin Blue Line 2010-03-04T22:53:00Z Under the Radar, or UTR, was founded as both a celebration and a canny act of service. For Under the Radar, the Experiment Is Over, for Now 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Here, canny businessman and genuine animal lover share the same skin, and a high-end safari outfitter is no less concerned for his beasts than the most vehement anti-hunting activist. Review: For the Wild Things in ‘Trophy,’ Life Has a Price 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The orchestra and chorus were mostly fine throughout, and Mr. Suzuki, an old hand at Bach, supplied canny direction and pacing. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z This canny bit of neural legerdemain, where one major brain region takes over for another, is called cross-modal plasticity. Deaf rapper Sean Forbes makes himself joyfully heard on the hip-hop scene 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Even in these canny homages, the actuality of these women is somewhat hidden. Review | In the galleries: ‘Focus Group’ takes a playful approach to life and death 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. White is a canny and knowing strategist. Music Review: Jack White and Peacocks at Radio City in Full Set 2012-10-01T21:37:30Z A show about failures of intelligence on multiple levels, it has now reappeared in canny digital form, produced with the assistance of BroadwayHD, where it streams starting Wednesday. ‘Who’s Your Baghdaddy’ Review: The Iraq War Set to Backpack Rap 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z His poems to Lady Byron are canny public relations exercises with a nasty side. Breakup songs owe a lot to the lovelorn lyrics of the Romantics 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z That same friend then made a canny observation: Perhaps a career cue lay hidden in plain sight. Suket Dhir, Men’s Wear Designer, From Delhi to the World 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z He was a canny, shrewd and pragmatic businessman, though he could barely read or write. An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Don't expect musical proficiency, just a blend of horseplay and canny reverence towards the past. New band of the day ? No 1,085: Hanni El Khatib 2011-08-16T16:35:00Z At the evening’s heart were the four Chopin ballades, presented, in a canny piece of programming, on either side of intermission, two before and two after. The right Hough: Pianist delivers superb recital at Terrace Theater 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In Nick’s case, the confusions of a broken home have made him canny, manipulative, and chronically afraid, as well as incapable of recognizing a good thing. This Week in Fiction: Joshua Ferris on the Ease of Self-Sabotage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z They give canny new meaning to the idea of “color field.” 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Tackling the Eagles’ “Take It Easy,” which has brought crossover appeal, certainly seemed like a canny move. 'The Voice' recap: Top 8 ... or top great? 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z But away from his private life he's a canny operator. Jeremy Clarkson 2011-07-24T18:06:00Z If nothing else, “Rise of the Guardians” is a canny feat of merchandising and a potentially lucrative franchise in the making. Movie Review: In ‘Rise of the Guardians,’ Childhood Naïveté Wins 2012-11-20T22:29:12Z A large tent became a Sikh temple and, in the town, a canny butcher had set up a halal slaughterhouse, with the first wagon-load of goats on its way. Royal treatment 2010-04-18T19:00:00Z Since a canny California cut-flower grower named Paul Ecke Sr. came up with the idea of the poinsettia as a potted plant for the holidays, breeders have been trying to perfect it. Reinventing the poinsettia: A classic Christmas flower’s colorful new looks 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z And possibly self-mythologising, too, because the man is a canny circus baker, keen to ensure that we print the legend. Werner Herzog: 'I'm fascinated by trash TV. The poet must not avert his eyes' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z In these ways, Mr. Kekhman’s strategy may be a canny one. Nacho Duato and Mikhailovsky Ballet 2010-08-20T14:35:00Z As the director Guy Cassiers showed with a canny use of looming shadows at La Scala, a little imagination can work wonders. Music: Standing Small, Singing Big, All Sulfur and Zest 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z There are canny distortions of figures in his compositions, and subtle shadows and shadings in his color. 'Noah Davis: Savage Wilds': Trash TV as elegant art 2012-08-02T20:17:14Z Like everything here, the “Penetrables” offer a curious, alluring, canny and uncanny approach to the human body. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z And finally, Jason Robards’s two stem-winding monologues—galvanized versions of Bradlee’s quotations scattered through the book—drive home the movie’s core themes about journalism’s necessary balance of canny brinkmanship with social responsibility. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z And some of the canniest shock artists say that, these days, refusing to deliver it in the expected ways may be the most shocking move of all. Shock Me if You Can 2012-09-14T22:36:46Z Ten months, four Oscars and $135m later Appelo looks quite the canny tipster, not least because he recognised that his hunch was secondhand. Telluride's tiny film festival sets the Oscars agenda 2011-07-28T11:34:02Z Bernice’s full album, “Puff LP: In the Air Without a Shape,” is due May 25; this is a canny, almost clandestine tease. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Inevitably, somebody always chimes in that the canny French, who are born knowing about wine, never spend more than 5 euros a bottle. 20 Wines Under $20: A Little More Money for a Lot More Wine 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It was a canny move on behalf of the coalition. Mary Portas: 'I'm one of the best in the world at retail' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z How canny to capitalize on a youthful ache to rewind to an era when Molly Ringwald wasn’t forced to worry about school shootings and climate change. ‘To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You’ Review: Bliss, for Now 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z There, Indiewire described de Leon’s performance as “bold and heartsick,” while Screen Daily praised her for “playing it canny and ruthless.” The Power Player of ‘Triangle of Sadness’: Dolly de Leon 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Murray is canny in tracing the near-imperceptible stages by which Casement and Ward land on opposite sides of bitterly divisive issues. ‘ Gentlemen’: a superb novel about Irish patriot Roger Casement 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z From the first, Mr. Capote had a canny understanding of fame and a prescient sense of celebrity’s untapped potential. 50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Jackson Jr already made an auspicious debut playing his own dad in Straight Outta Compton; this follow-up proves he can hold the camera’s gaze without the benefit of canny stunt casting. The 10 film performances that deserve more awards attention this year 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Conversely, when you get divorced, the love you felt is converted into hate, which now makes loving your ex a canny move, an accumulation of potential energy waiting to be unleashed. The Season Finale of 'The Good Wife' 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Quammen, combining physical and intellectual adventure, wraps his canny explorations into powerful moral witness. Books of The Times: ‘Spillover,’ by David Quammen, on How Animals Infect Humans 2012-10-02T22:11:49Z In a surprisingly canny move, “Magic Mike” star Channing Tatum is even being floated as a potential lead. Dan Aykroyd to ride the sexist “Ghostbusters” reboot backlash all the way to the bank 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z So Amazon's move is a canny one – on two fronts. How Kindle Worlds aims to colonise fan fiction 2013-06-02T11:00:02Z Restoration comedy, however, is tricky, requiring a canny balance of theatrical artifice and delicacy to animate its wit, wordplay and satirical irreverence. Theater Review: Lovebirds, Twits and Blowhards in ‘The Rivals’ 2014-05-08T21:43:20Z Why would someone as canny as Thomas Cromwell check into that heartbreak hotel? 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell, the Nobody Who Gets Things Done 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z And while there are wonderfully odd details in his major altarpieces and sacred works, their primary impact is a sense of great order, balance and canny construction. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Lakoff emphasized that this is different from the Democrats’ labeling some conservatives racist, sexist or homophobic — which they do — if only because that usage is not as “canny” or strategic. Perspective | The coded language of the alt-right is helping to power its rise 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Not every wheel needs reinventing, and one of the abiding pleasures of “Star Trek,” in its old and newer iterations, lies in its balance of stubborn consistency and canny inventiveness. Review: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Sticks to Its Brand. That’s Not Necessarily Bad. 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z But Wright, while a canny craftsman, is too committed to good taste to go over the top into either melodrama or camp. ‘Cyrano’ Review: Who Wrote the Book of Love? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z A canny entrepreneur who speaks in a slow New Orleans drawl, Mr. Kassem started collecting records in 1986, when he was 24. Music: Vinyl Revival: Reissues From Blue Note?s Heyday 2010-08-08T01:30:00Z “Like most women, she wasn’t allowed to lead, but for a moment, she was a uniquely gifted and canny follower.” Martha Saxton, Historian Who Explored Women’s Lives, Dies at 77 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Tywin is simply canny enough to keep that part of his opinion to himself. A "Game of Thrones" shout out to the last ladies standing 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But what’s so canny about “Behind the Sheet” is its awareness that there is nothing shocking about such domestic arrangements in the time and place where it is set. Review: Reckoning With Medical Betrayals ‘Behind the Sheet’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Are wonky clocks, whooshing doors and bomb dogs prescience, canny writing or just blind luck? When life imitates TV 2011-03-16T12:50:13Z I have been thinking not just of Chekhov but of Harold Pinter, who is an even better guide to Trump’s brutal relativism and canny opportunism. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z In a canny twist by the show’s producers, his ex-wife judges on the US version. Gavin Rossdale: ‘If you divorce America's sweetheart, you're in trouble’ 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z “The Bestseller Code,” a new book in which Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers present an algorithm for detecting the sales potential of other books, has, not surprisingly, a commercially canny title. “The Bestseller Code” Tells Us What We Already Know 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Michael Snow, best known for avant-garde art films like the trippy “Wavelength” from 1967, is a canny player with basic elements of photography. | Art: Before and After, Paris in the 1800s 2014-01-24T19:14:13Z In “Mirror, Mirror,” a portrait-survey that opens this month at Throckmorton Fine Art in Manhattan, Kahlo is revealed to have been an image wizard as canny as her spiritual descendant, Madonna. Frida Kahlo Is Having a Moment 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z For explicitly feminist writing, turn to Rebecca Traister’s canny, insightful “All the Single Ladies,” a book to match your taste for journalistic prose and your desire to read about a range of female life. Contemporary Womanhood, in Fact and Fiction 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The form is intricate, the performances canny, and if it’s fleeter and less brutal than the novel, it still pokes its fingers into the same social wounds, inflicted by the same political party. Review: ‘What a Carve Up!’ Is Wonderful. But Is It Theater? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z It may seem like I'm making mighty sophisticated claims for a novel steeped in squirrel lore, but even the squirrel lore is astute and canny. 'The Portable Veblen' is deep, wise and eccentric ... and full of squirrels 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Partly thanks to Oberon Sinclair, a canny British PR working for the American Kale Association, it has become the modern superfood of choice. Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s a canny pop construct: layered and catchy as it is disingenuous. Lorde reigns at Aragon 2014-03-19T05:37:00Z The fir tree outside my window, the canny look in a crow’s eye as it peered inside at me. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The author is a chipper field guild and canny ethnographer, writing with refreshing honesty about the folk ways of the Department of Defense, which often confound outsiders. Review: ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, Frank's canny ability to evoke pictorial and literary imagery in ways distinctively her own made for vivid and bracing aural adventures in Tuesday's performances, which were introduced by the composer-pianist. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z She made a snappy, respectful, canny record of one decade’s version of bohemia. Art In Review: Amy Arbus: ‘On the Street 1980-1990’ 2014-03-21T00:02:22Z And this trend, once perceived as a novelty at best, is attracting a new generation of light-traveling frequent fliers and canny frugalistas. Convertible Clothing Is a New Twist for the Cost-Conscious 2011-01-19T23:12:08Z Smart and warm, easy, canny, and properly funny. Falling for Roddy Doyle 2010-05-30T13:37:00Z Also crucial, multiple people said, was the canny persistence of Mr. Bunch, who had intimate experience with Chicago politics and who had honed his skills as a facilitator while president of the historical society there. How the Fight for a National African-American Museum Was Won 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z In choosing her protagonists as she has, Deer has made a canny portrait of Mohawk domestic life during a modern conflict. ‘Beans’ Review: Growing Up Fast in the ’90s 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He emerged from it a canny marketer and salesman. Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z He emerges as prickly, shy, acute, a canny borrower of past art, sought after and self-contained. Watteau: The Drawings; Esprit et V?rit?: Watteau and His Circle ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:24Z At the last minute, though, the canny host had someone announce each of the guests as they arrived. 50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Chase was a canny painter and an artist who kept abreast of the latest fashions. William Merritt Chase, modernist in moderation 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s really just a moderately good general Southern cookbook with a canny marketing strategy. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z It was a canny shift of the show's tone, from epic self-aggrandizement to a more casual, at times even likable, persona. Sheen's show gets makeover 2011-04-04T03:34:00Z Yet “Dark Horse” is a canny package that uses the classic structure of the sports-underdog story to deliver a glowing ode to community pride and the merits of collective action over individual gain. Review: In ‘Dark Horse,’ a Real-Life Steeplechase Champion Inspires a Town 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But in fact Sweden's canny social policies are the reason so many of its baby boomers are choosing to keep going to the office. Sweden's pensions and parent policies keep old age worries at bay 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z He worked tirelessly on behalf of prison reform for actual prisoners, and he was as canny as anyone about his own epistemological biases. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z This is canny, passionate filmmaking, a reminder of the power of two-dimensional animation. ‘My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising’ Review: Superpowers Served Sweetly 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Told in a series of frantic emails and other methods of correspondence, the book chronicles the doomed love story of two men and their canny daughters. Finding the Comedy in Tween Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z She was 16, a nurse-in-training — a position arranged by her canny mother, who knew that hospital workers were less vulnerable to deportation. Book World: ‘The Train to Warsaw’ by Gwen Edelman “Words” leaves an overall impression of complete charm and canny organization. Mark Morris’s ‘Words,’ a Premiere at Fall for Dance 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z As portrayed in galvanizing performances by David Oyelowo and Tom Wilkinson, these two canny political players emerge as fascinating, often contradictory characters, one whose genius lies in grass-roots activism, the other in Washington realpolitik. Film fact-checking is here to stay. So let’s agree on some new rules. 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Was this passion project really just a canny grab for attention? Everyone has a dream. For Jeffrey it was riding a CitiBike across America 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z “Part of the brilliance is how canny and sharp and original that mind is.” In ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Annaleigh Ashford Puts It All Together 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z But the monsters the humans battle are “described as canny, and brave, and intelligent,” and given persuasive emotional back stories. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Other portrayals of nature are rendered fantastic partly by the canny use of color. Review | In the galleries: Artists sport their chops with prints on the cutting edge 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The show’s slender, appealing catalogue contains mockups for other Bader proposals, all of them just as canny and funny and weird. A Visit to “Visitors” on Governors Island 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z David Byrne is perspicacious — a canny mix of smarts and wonder. "David Byrne's American Utopia" is a rousing, vibrant spectacular that rivals "Stop Making Sense" 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z The British producer, singer and songwriter PinkPantheress, 22, emerged during the pandemic with a hushed and nostalgic play on dance music, turning canny samples from the club and beyond into intimate, original bedroom pop. PinkPantheress Leaves the Bedroom for the Wider Pop World 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z But a couple of canny juxtapositions this season add resonance. Music Review: Mozart, Strauss and Friends, an Austrian Seasonal Tradition 2012-08-01T21:53:15Z It presents Anthony as a mysterious blend of canny intuition and near-Martian naivety as he wanders the alien city – his perceptions are fresh, melancholic, original. This Is the Way by Gavin Corbett – review 2013-02-20T09:01:01Z A canny interpreter of Harold Pinter's menacing enigmas, Duncan channeled the traumatic mystery of his play "Ashes to Ashes" with harrowing intensity. Lindsay Duncan finds her footing in 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z However, this survey, “The Life I Deserve” at MoMA PS1 shows Ms. Beavers honing her idiosyncratic aesthetic that translates images into high-relief objects, offering canny statements on contemporary bodies, beauty and culture. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The casting of big-name US talent is a canny move by Downton Abbey's producers with one eye on the American market, where the show is arguably an even bigger hit than in the UK. Paul Giamatti to join cast of Downton Abbey 2013-06-24T16:49:54Z Giannopoulos might be inexperienced, but he’s canny with mood and unafraid to experiment with the rhythms of violence. ‘The Birthday Cake’ Review: Baked Hoods 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The benevolent deception of “Paid Off” is in the way Torpey gently but indubitably delivers a canny indictment on economic inequality while assigning. Game show “Paid Off” targets the student loan crisis: A subversive warning about a looming em... 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z In these Lichtenstein rebuilds drawing from the ground up with a canny mix of commercial and fine-art techniques that accommodates a tremendous range of tones and textures. Art Review: Following the Dots Around the City 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z But exploring women at middle-age and older, as she tends to do, is also a canny defense against those who might reduce a young woman’s work to mere autobiographical stenography. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z He’s a canny charlatan who this once struck gold. A Rousing End Lifts a Program of Jérôme Bel Dances in Paris 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Clarkson, one of the canniest actresses working, would seem to be trying to avoid stereotype by portraying Mrs. Kendal as a hazy, trans-Atlantic eccentric who speaks as if in a dream. Bradley Cooper in 'The Elephant Man' on Broadway 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z As a director, he is both canny and bold, dropping bits of backwoods humor into an austere landscape dominated by violence and anguish. ‘The Homesman’ Stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Khrushchev soon emerges as one of the canniest of these survivors, though Beria moves faster and initially with far more lethal force. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Or is it a canny politician with a U-Store-It full of baggage requesting leniency at the time most critical to his election prospects? After ripping Romney, Gingrich pledges 'positive' campaign 2011-12-13T15:30:00Z What keeps Mr. Wallace’s work from falling into preachiness is its canny and unsettling blend of installation, video, documentary, fiction and advertising — what feels like foreboding one moment becomes promotional the next. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z His performance is a canny portrait of leadership: part genius, part crazy guts, part dumb luck. Moneyball at Toronto: Brad Pitt Hits a Solid Triple 2011-09-10T14:05:00Z Maybe the secret to Bert V. Royal's highly satisfying screenplay for "Easy A" is its insight into the fact that teenagers are more than conniving, canny mini-adults who live their lives through electronic gizmos. "Easy A": The summer's biggest comedy surprise 2010-09-17T01:01:00Z There’s the canny strategist, who petitioned a Pope and challenged a sultan. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Lurie’s canniest alteration to “Straw Dogs” is the choice of his hero’s profession. Rod Lurie Remakes Peckinpah?s ?Straw Dogs? 2011-09-04T02:53:02Z These spaces offer a canny, if cynical, response: The guests supply the aura. The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z When the sky truly did fall on her, Swift dropped the Chicken Little act and revealed the canny, strong adult underneath. With her tough testimony, did we just meet the real Taylor Swift? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z It is a canny self-observation, about work that is surprisingly quiet, and thus all the more poignant in its insistence and clarity. Perspective | Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make works ‘to rest your eyes.’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z However, the choice of Ms. Jarrar, who is respected for her distinctive and disciplined point of view, as expressed most often in an inventive way with a tuxedo suit, is a canny one. Lanvin Names Bouchra Jarrar as Artistic Director of Women’s Collections 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Her show, “Being Naomi,” is both vacant and mesmerizing, almost Warholian level, and a canny master class for the aspiring brand-building narcissist. 11 Things About Naomi Campbell 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Bond, a canny political observer, seems to take pleasure in Kiki’s privileged conservatism and accidental progressivism. Kiki and Herb Make America Great Again 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Yes–but he’s also entirely aware and canny about how he’s being accommodating. Review: Fresh Off the Boat Has the Makings of an American Original 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z On the other side is Timothy Spall’s sly, jovial portrayal of Mr. Irving, who argued his own defense, as a canny trickster with an impregnable ego. Review: In ‘Denial,’ Confronting a Holocaust Revisionist in Court 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It also has a huge female fan base, as did Titanic, which TBS, in its own canny counterprogramming, is showing tonight opposite the Super Bowl. 2010-02-07T21:50:00Z It is, without a doubt, a canny and professional work. Dance Review: Susan Stroman’s ‘Double Feature,’ With City Ballet 2012-05-25T21:17:12Z Authoritarians may be canny and have sharp instincts for self-preservation, but they are often stupid men, with closed minds and no capacity for thinking about art. Review | America picked artist Martin Puryear’s work for the Venice Biennale — and he’s everything America is not 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But Sue Jin Song makes canny reference to insect behavior in her one-woman show “Children of Medea,” which streams April 27 to May 16 in a Constellation Theatre Company staging. Review | Constellation’s ‘Children of Medea’ spins a dreamscape family portrait 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Her choice of pianists was another canny step. Mastering the art of entertainment: Renée Fleming in recital 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It shares that show’s canny awareness of its characters’ insecurities. Review: Lifetime’s ‘You’ Lets You Stalk the Stalker 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z But it's clear from the opening number, in which Miranda conveys with canny concision Hamilton's early biography, that this is not going to be any high school social studies lesson. 'Hamilton's' revolutionary power is in its hip-hop musical numbers 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z The scoop on them is that they're adapting their piece, "Titan Arum," for film — a canny move, given their visual and theatrical flair. Velocity's Fall Kick-Off: local dance variety pack 2011-09-24T17:22:04Z In an interview a few days before the May 13 Met premiere, Clayton said he was both “a more canny singer” and more stable than when he first sang Hamlet. ‘A Vocal Figure Skater’ Makes His Mark as an Operatic Hamlet 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z But canny film-makers exploit the unstable nature of this dynamic, subverting it by reaching through to shatter our complacency and mess with our minds. Clip joint: windows 2010-12-08T14:34:00Z Saturday’s concert was a canny example of the Met’s recently revised approach to music programming. Music Review: Daniel Hope and Karen Gomyo, Violinists, at Met Museum 2012-12-25T22:09:24Z To a sympathetic observer, the lack of campaigning films in Attenborough’s oeuvre might look like a canny political calculation about the most effective way to shift popular opinion over the long-term. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Unlike the so-called "superstars" in Warhol's films, who were fame-famished habitués of The Factory, these canny actor-creators seem accessible, unglamorous, and absurdly eager to please. Gob Squad skewers and pays tribute to Warhol's Factory 2012-09-28T22:12:05Z Profanities — well, really just one — are sprinkled throughout “Hero,” this 26-year-old singer and songwriter’s outstanding major label debut album, and perhaps the canniest country record in recent memory. Review: Why ‘Hero’ Is an Outstanding Country Music Debut 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z A canny mix of documentary and staged footage is married to a narration of fantastical encyclopaedia entries on Utopia, illuminating the islanders' romantic, weird or destructive social codes. Artist of the week 125: Ben Rivers 2011-02-10T15:01:14Z But Mr. Timbers — a canny and inventive director, best known for wilder, crazier productions like “Here Lies Love” and “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” — is determined to squelch the snickers. Theater Review: ‘Rocky,’ the Musical, Brings Songs to a Film Story 2014-03-14T02:00:03Z He finds himself intensely attracted to Ali, a tough and canny local boy. In This Debut Novel, Family Ties Bind, Even From Afar 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Muddying matters further, a canny police detective starts to notice that Logan knows more about the unfolding case than he should. Silk 2011-03-01T08:00:02Z Gorman, with his gray stubble and rheumy eyes, may look closer to the Central Casting notion of the Skid Row denizen, but Rogosin lets us see the canny hustler behind the vacant gaze. Lionel Rogosin?s ?On the Bowery? on Blu-ray 2012-02-24T20:10:52Z And, of course, as one more bit of canny branding. Your Suitcase Is Texting 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But the elders, who look like a canny lot, don’t say much. The Documentaries That Help Explain Bowe Bergdahl 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Spirited and primed for a challenge, Ms. Eckenswiller is one in a sisterhood of like-minded shoppers, inveterate trappers who stalk sales systematically, a canny method in their seemingly chaotic ways. Bargain Hunters and Their Bag of Tricks 2012-12-12T21:55:40Z “It was canny cross-promotion,” the writer Sean Howe notes in “Marvel Comics: The Untold Story”; by teaming fan-favorite characters with less popular heroes, Marvel hoped to increase interest across the board. The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z West, whose earlier features include “The House of the Devil” and “The Sacrament,” is both a canny craftsman and a genre intellectual. ‘X’ Review: Trash, Art and the Movies 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Sebastian Foxx is a canny invention — “a man of action and one of principle!” declares the admiring street urchin he takes on as a servant. Book review: ‘The Day of Atonement’ by David Liss The bar is a looming presence in the room and on the menu, which offers cocktail-friendly small plates full of contrasting textures, canny ingredients and good fun. Choice Tables: In Portland, Ore., Dining Gets Fine Without Losing Flair 2013-07-23T17:52:17Z To present the smoke and mirrors of her trade as actual visual elements was a canny touch. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z Keith was the organizers’ best get; he’s a canny and funny songwriter and performer with dozens of big hits to his name. The Bizarre Perfection of Trump’s Inaugural Concert 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z It is that “we,” so canny and yet so generous-seeming, to which Smith’s acolytes, and the world at large, respond. Patti Smith’s ‘Devotion’ — equal parts exasperating and inspiring 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The people she creates are so taxonomically familiar as to be basically blank: the remote father, the excitable friends, the fierce, canny grandmother. Review | ‘The Parisian’ takes us back to the Ottoman Empire on the cusp of upheaval 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The book boasts notably above-average characterizations: the oddballs, the canny English cop, the meticulous French inspector — they're all lively and well-rounded. New in crime fiction: Benjamin Black and Jacqueline Winspear 2010-04-07T23:22:00Z Ellis captures the moments when Washington, the gentleman-general, recoiled from the truth that a strategic retreat could be a canny move. ‘Revolutionary Summer’: America on the edge of change 2013-07-04T00:18:56Z Ruthless, canny and tenacious, Mr. Jobs emerges as a formidable captain of industry in the vein of past fierce innovator-businessmen like Thomas Edison, with a Svengali’s coal-eyed stare to boot. Review: Different Thinking About Steve Jobs, the Man Behind Apple 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The current queen’s canniest tutor in brand management was likely her mother, said Andrew Bolton, a curator at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Queen Elizabeth II Sets a Style Standard 2012-06-01T16:59:27Z In her canny debut, part of the first batch of original specials from HBO Max, she ends a bit about dating with a hard pivot: “What I’m saying is men are garbage.” Cracking Jokes Right Before the World Turned Upside Down 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z A cannier playwright would let the characters’ qualities emerge through action or would leave it up to the audience to make certain determinations. Review: ‘Sojourners,’ About Nigerians Assimilating to Life in the U.S. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Oundjian, now 55, seems to have been a canny choice to direct the orchestra. Orchestra, Back From the Brink 2011-03-18T23:21:12Z Mr. Kelemen’s polished, canny performance also keeps us guessing about the nature of Daniel. In ‘Our New Girl,’ a Household Is Under Stress 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Hygge wasn’t exactly the kind of thing the institute researched, but the commission was canny, since the association suggested to the reader that hygge might help provide a shortcut to Danish levels of wellbeing. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z But it took the perfect storm of timing, canny marketing and Wurtzel's own formidable charisma to give Prozac its contemporary cachet. I'm still a member of Prozac Nation: Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel and her life-changing book 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Doctor De Soto is at a disadvantage in a society designed for bigger animals, and this is a canny narrative choice. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Frey appears to have found a canny solution to that conundrum, by picking a subject matter that can be guaranteed to goad the Christian right into providing helpful angry publicity. James Frey ignores publishing houses to release new book through art gallery 2011-03-15T17:38:01Z Still, to a handful of canny promoters, their jobs confer prestige, their visibility at the highly publicized art-world events and proliferating fairs springing up from Miami to Mumbai, rendering them ripe for a little exploitation. At Frieze Art Fair, Figures at an Exhibition 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z That's why the canny dealer - sometimes with the help of the collector - will actively look to sell the work of a recently signed artist to a leading modern art museum at a knockdown price. Art power list 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z For a start, he could offer pointers on how to use clothes to political advantage, as he did throughout his canny presidential run. From President Macron, a Lesson in Style 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Andra Day, who plays Holiday, is a canny and charismatic performer, and the film’s hectic narrative is punctuated with nightclub and concert-hall scenes that capture some of the singer’s magnetism. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Around every corner lies another crisis, a canny stretch of a finite budget. ‘Black Bear’ Review: Two’s Company, Three’s an Art Project 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Marvel Entertainment is the canniest movie company around, with near-genius amalgamation of the creatures spawned in their comic books. X-Men: Days of Future Past and the Elusive $100 Million Movie Opening 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The installation is a contributing factor, with its canny matching of art to architecture. Are All-Women Shows Good or Bad for Art? 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z I've tried to include just enough clues to render each fragment recognisable to a canny reader, but for the full list of sources, click here. Reading by numbers: a celebration of Virago at 40 2013-06-27T14:04:20Z Even portraits aimed at satisfying conventional expectation do canny justice to their subjects in a few cases. Peggy Strong retrospective raises more questions than it answers about her career 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But Lord is canny, even if he’s misleading and wrong. Blaming Democrats for the KKK: Van Jones fights back against Trump’s racist support, but he can’t win 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z For a show that is one long dialogue, it has a canny and ever-changing look. Redacting history in ‘The Letters’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z A charming, canny waif, of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, Basquiat was driven by a craving for the fame and fortune that eventually consumed him. The Week Ahead: Dec. 19 ? 25 2010-12-16T15:14:51Z Like a sideshow barker, Young writes with unbridled enthusiasm, a showman’s conviction, and a carny’s canny, telling a story that at times defies belief. How fake news, hoaxes and humbug are about race 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Once or twice the ugly business feels a tad familiar, but far more often the author delivers canny surprises. Review | Murder and music coincide in ‘Destroy All Monsters’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z It was a canny choice that reflected her desire to be as transparent as possible about connecting her own situation to that of other women. Fashioning ‘The First Lady’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s the show’s canny nod to the visual palette of Washington, D.C., a landscape it is in love with and in the business of reproducing. “House of Cards” returns: Let the war between Frank and Claire Underwood begin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z More overtly erotic than Dorothy, and way cannier, Lorelei doesn’t give anything away. Megan Does Marilyn: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is Her Smash 2012-05-13T17:01:06Z So loving yourself means relishing your many postures, your canny shifts in attitude and look. What Could Have Been Iconic 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The decision to build the center near most of the city’s cultural institutions, including the San Francisco Symphony, Ballet and Opera, and the Herbst Theater, is a canny move. Arts: Sleepy Jazz Scene Shows Signs of Awakening 2010-05-16T01:58:00Z To say that he had Cage’s canny music under his fingers is a serious understatement. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z The family fortune can be traced to Morris Milstein, a canny Russian émigré who founded the Circle Floor Company in 1919. Young Socialites Conjure the Ghost of Leonard Bernstein at the Dakota 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z In the event, with pitiful irony, Katherine's knack for a canny chess gambit forsook her after Henry's death. Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle – review 2013-04-06T10:00:01Z Mr. Audiard is a canny showman, adept at manipulating the audience’s feelings and expectations with quick edits and well-chosen songs. Movie Review: ‘Rust and Bone,’ Starring Marion Cotillard 2012-11-22T22:47:22Z As such, Poundstone is both a canny opportunist and a true believer, dispensing idealistic bromides even as he wields a mean Machiavellian stiletto. Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth 2010-03-11T23:32:00Z They've even got the imports right: Glee might divide viewers, but it was a canny acquisition. Channel 4's innovative spirit gets buried under car crash TV 2011-01-10T07:47:54Z For others he is a canny manipulator, utterly in control of his reputation and place in the art world and market. Ai Weiwei shows Venice Biennale his many sides 2013-05-30T11:57:01Z Nonetheless, it was a canny bit of planning. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z She’s a very canny, very grounded person and the movies reflect that.” Sara Driver Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives 2012-03-16T17:39:49Z An Italian exploitation film from 1980, called “Cannibal Holocaust” no less, is the template for Kea Wilson’s funny, canny first novel. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Moore is, as always, poised and canny in her depiction of a self-possessed woman in the process of unraveling. Movie Review | 'Chloe': Amanda Seyfried Goes on an Undercover Mission 2010-03-26T00:40:00Z She admits she's said some "dumb things that added fuel to the fire", and wishes she had been more canny. Joanna Newsom: 'Is it time for a glass of wine?' 2010-05-09T20:30:00Z This canny ploy means the action, heaving with innuendo and jokes about pendulums, can be played straight, making it all the funnier. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z Its best hope for commercial success is appealing to a target audience it is too canny to risk offending. Movie Review: ?Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan?s Hope,? by Morgan Spurlock 2012-04-12T21:47:24Z It’s brash and funny, and very adult, with a lot of pop-culture references and canny social commentary. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The mix of self-deprecation and self-importance would just come off as unbearable if it weren’t fueled by his canny observations, his pleasing sentences, his comic timing. In ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer,’ Geoff Dyer Ponders the Twilight 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z This gaudy, overstuffed exhibition reveals an artist of extraordinary industry and canny versatility. Entang Wiharso 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z And Prince, a notable figure on the British dance scene, is canny enough to know how to end proceedings on a high. These 2 Productions Bring a Jolt of Energy to British Musicals 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The singer and his management were canny back when Bieber was breaking through with his R&B-indebted pop debut, My World. Justin Bieber; Carly Rae Jepsen – review 2013-03-10T00:05:31Z He plays Roque, canny and scar-faced, the most dangerous of the titular group of former Special Forces soldiers bent on revenge against the bad guys who almost killed them. Film: Idris Elba, ?Wire? Star Generating His Own Buzz 2010-04-16T18:19:00Z Nicely understated and deadpan funny, Ms. Sullivan’s video is a canny satire of foolishly romantic, extended-adolescent narcissism. Art in Review: JENNIFER SULLIVAN: ?One-Week Walden? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z Even so, Mr. Spielberg is a canny entertainer and for “Bridge of Spies” he has roped in Tom Hanks, an approachable star who can go dark but wasn’t built to remain there long. Review: In ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Spielberg Considers the Cold War 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z This is a dry comedy that elicits amused recognition rather than belly laughs, and Ulman, as a first-time feature director, makes canny decisions to set a wry tone. ‘El Planeta’ Review: A Comedy of Austerity 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z But friends insist there is nothing canny about it. His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z Mr. Baker’s language is funny and frisky, canny and keen. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z M’s systematic attempts to make meaning out of her chaotic life may be futile, but they offer a canny insight into her magical mind. Order and Chaos, Mostly Chaos, in 3 Debut Novels 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Griffin, known as a gutsy and canny strategist, was chosen to lead the Human Rights Campaign in 2012. Meet two activists who brought sweeping change to the gay rights movement He was a bit shorter off the tee than the youngsters were, but for the most part he was cannier on and around the greens. Going High-Tech On The PGA Tour 2010-07-08T18:30:00Z There is another side to Mr. Rodgers, the canny pop craftsman, which came through in his heartfelt ballads. Music Review: Johnny Rodgers Performs at the Algonquin?s Oak Room 2010-05-12T20:47:00Z Written for a small orchestra of limited strings and single woodwinds, horn and trumpet, the piece is a vivid series of fantasy landscapes limned with canny economy. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z But the irrepressible physicality of that scrappy band of ragamuffins is just part of what turns this canny stage transformation of Disney’s 1992 big-screen misfire into a crowd pleaser. | 'Newsies the Musical': ?Newsies the Musical? - Review 2011-09-27T22:21:14Z The chance to crow about Nineteen Eighty-Four is long gone, sadly, ditto 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but will Canongate's canny observation prompt a slew of announcements from publishers of similarly numerical novels? The Life of Pi sells 3,141,593 copies, and counting … 2013-02-21T17:30:14Z You get the feeling Jay-Z – nothing if not canny – is prepared to align himself with another loose cannon in exchange for some of West's inspiration. Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch the Throne - review 2011-08-11T14:30:01Z The canny Cicero probes for a weakness and finds it. Robert Harris’s ‘Dictator’ finds new drama in the lives of Caesar and Cicero 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Addressing the incident on the show was a canny move, in terms of publicity. Ashlee Simpson’s New Reality 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Behind the opera's jolly japes and canny pastiches is one of Britten's boldest, most socially revolutionary statements: a piece hardwired into the youthful urge to experiment, rebel and break free. Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z Those words might also be synonyms, but Berman seems to mean the first to describe Hefner's liberal do-gooding, the second for his canny instincts in creating, selling and personifying his magazine's sybaritic viewpoint. A Hugh Hefner Documentary: Airbrushed 2010-07-31T06:45:00Z Wright, she added, was canny about raising federal funds for the WAC project. WAC’s work is done: Art consortium, founded in the 1970s, disbands 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Like most of Apatow's favoured actors, O'Dowd looks how the average guy imagines he looks, yet has enough subtle appeal to make a woman feel rather canny for fancying him. Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood 2012-05-18T22:01:08Z "Iron Man 2" feels canny, smart and out of control, which is probably what Robert Downey Jr. was like when he was doing lots of coke. "Iron Man 2": Parody or party? 2010-05-07T11:10:00Z As a combat soldier, writes Dilworth, Jones would be “canny, efficient, adept at survival.” Why isn’t David Jones famous? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Both this and Wednesday’s program were canny: short enough to do without an intermission, yet focused enough to feel immersive. Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z As canny as she is well connected, Ms. Mills introduced his designs to Rihanna, who wears one of his pink-sequined jumpsuits on her latest video. 2010-02-13T02:22:00Z The movie’s canny assemblage of archival footage from Scharf’s early New York ascendancy in the late 1970s puts across what made his scene both exhilarating and, to many within and outside it, insufferable. ‘Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide’ Review: Outlasting an Art Scene 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z But control is just one effect, and in some ways the canniest — nothing else so efficiently earns the reader’s trust and can lull her into sleepy credulity. ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ a Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z A canny Cambridge police superintendent refers to Sir Aidan as “one of yours” — meaning that he was most certainly an undercover operative working for Joe and investigating something fishy. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z An anniversary, as has surely occurred to both women, can be both a potent reminder of those narratives and a canny marketing device. Front Row: Celebrating Donna Karan and Diane von Furstenberg, Fashion Legends and Legendary Designs 2014-02-19T23:05:28Z Will the new crew prove any more canny than their forebears at sidestepping completely avoidable demises? Alien: Covenant trailer: five things we've learned about the xenomorph saga 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s a canny performance that leverages every aspect of the charisma and ambition that made him a superstar. The 2022 Oscar Race Has Begun. Here’s Who Is Already Ahead. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z That’s in part because Diana, with a canny understanding of the press and a born storyteller’s flair for drama, created an ongoing, ever-heightening document of her personal drama and her reinventions. How Princess Diana Created a New Era of Celebrity 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The problem we found as we considered this more feminist reading was that it was hard to play Daisy as canny when she’s directly described as “a mound of melted marshmallow.” I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z A canny director and a top star decided to dig deep to find the core of a compromised hero. Denzel Washington in Flight: A Crash Landing That Soars 2012-10-16T19:00:52Z Wang Keping’s sculpture “Idol” uses some canny detailing to turn a likeness of Mao into that of the Buddha, quietly excoriating the leader’s deification. ‘Beijing Spring’ Review: The Politics of Aesthetics 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z But most of the delight owes to Perrin’s canny use of paper flaps. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z But in answering the Hamburg court’s query, it offered guidance to assess whether Michael Klotz’s canny branding overstepped EU law on protected regional labels. Glen where? EU court questions German's whisky branding 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Much of the play’s pleasure is in the merry outrages of its dramatic developments, which are navigated here by the cast with delightful, dark conviction under Mr. Berger’s canny direction. Review: In ‘’Tis Pity,’ Forbidden Love, the Most Attractive Kind 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z First, she had a canny understanding of their fragile psyches. For Joan Rivers’s Doctor, Fame Delivers Its Bill 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Partly this is a canny use of her "misfortunes" as a step back into the limelight; she's being sent around the world to explore ideas of beauty in different cultures. Formula 1 2010-07-10T05:45:00Z A canny plotter, Taylor devises twists that tempt the reader to skip to the ends of sentences, paragraphs and even to the final chapter to see what happens next. ‘The Stranger on the Train,’ by Abbie Taylor Their likeability is such – and is projected in such a canny way through their nebbish male characters, and resourceful female ones – that it seems like a solecism to criticise them too strenuously. Will Self considers the Coen brothers 2011-02-11T10:08:28Z On the other hand, as the surprise Pulitzer proves, Next to Normal's entire trajectory has been about breaking the rules, so perhaps what's needed is merely some canny and careful West End producing. Next to Normal's abnormal Pulitzer win 2010-04-14T10:03:00Z Perhaps the canniest picture is Su-Li Hung’s “New Museum,” which renders that jagged Manhattan structure as a stack of woodcut patterns. In the galleries: A meeting of lines in art and architecture “She has matured into a modern, canny fighting machine,” Mr. Moyer wrote in an e-mail. Television: One Sanguine Star 2011-06-16T19:49:29Z She’s the model of the very canny first lady next door. Jill Biden Models Love and Sustainability at the G7 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z By the end of the book Ms. Shin has been canny enough to make even Mom feel pangs of tearful love for her own Mom. Books of The Times: A Mother?s Devotion, a Family?s Tearful Regrets 2011-03-30T22:25:15Z But a few of them — notably “Standing Owl” — attain a canny harmony of primal subject and primitivist style. In the galleries: Showcasing an artist’s exploration and influence 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z This development increased the demand for canny mediators – human shock absorbers for the colliding, narrowly construed interests of one of the world's largest cities. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z Then, thanks to a canny investment by Salma Hayek's production company, it was transformed into a US hit about an ugly duckling set adrift among spiteful swans. Your next box set: Ugly Betty 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z This is a canny, compact portrait of teenage insensitivity, all the more riveting for its biting dialogue and funny performances. ‘Tahara’ Review: Hierarchy at a Hebrew-School Funeral 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The only downside to the amusing moments she spends sparring with canny veteran Kline is that they mislead us as to where this film is going. Paris isn't enough of a diversion in weak 'My Old Lady' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Arena is too intelligent and possessed of canny Neapolitan guile to play the game the Italian press wants of him, and recount his Camorrista life in detail. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z More than that, Kelly’s decision to leave Fox News seems canny. What Megyn Kelly Loses by Leaving Fox News 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The humanitarian ideal – and ask any sci-fi writer, there's always a humanitarian ideal – is that the machine will one day be canny enough to aid busy doctors by diagnosing patients and assessing x-rays. Meet Watson, the computer set to beat Jeopardy's champions 2011-02-06T00:05:33Z Officially described as an "exciting online experience" for fans, sceptics have wondered whether the site might be a canny way to promote a line of Potter ebooks that will go on sale in October. Harry Potter and the A-Z of magic 2011-07-09T23:07:10Z From these films and many other commercial exploitations of the Daleks, Nation, a freelancer with a canny agent, became a rich man. Raymond Cusick 2013-02-24T18:19:55Z The cast of eight converge and splinter off while weaving in and out of patterns with canny efficiency. Review: L.A. Dance Project Celebrates Female Choreographers 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z But Ford's borrowings are both canny and canned: There's an aggressive artificiality about them that makes them feel smug and arty -- they exist for their own vanity, not to serve the story. 2009-12-10T01:10:00Z Russia faces Saudi Arabia, which is celebrating its first World Cup appearance in 12 years and squeaked in thanks to some canny shotmaking by the striker Mohammad al-Sahlawi. What’s on TV Thursday: The World Cup and ‘Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce’ 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z But her canny insights into herself and the world keep you on the hook. Riding Shotgun on Martha Gellhorn’s Brave and Comic Adventures 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z While there must have been some canny professional strategizing in a career of such extraordinary richness and longevity, Mr. Brook prefers to see it in other terms. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Described as "an example of exceptional breeding — strong, healthy, and good-looking, resilient, canny if not smart," Charlie marries a bright environmentalist so dismayed by the state of the world that she doesn't want children. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Each painting seems a meeting place between her canny external observations of local maritime sights and her more volatile inward expression which renders those sights in almost Fauvist fashion. Artists Altus, Brock: a study in contrasts at Lisa Harris Gallery 2013-05-23T20:25:06Z Actors and producers valued not just her canny eye and instinct for flattery but also her ability to work swiftly and calmly. Martha Swope, 88, Who Etched Dance and Theater History in Photographs, Dies 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Moreover, his immediate post-SNL plans suggest that he might just be as canny with his career as he is with writing satirical hip-hop songs and spinning a comedy persona. Andy Samberg: a boy who deserves to do good 2012-06-13T10:18:00Z “Batman: The Animated Series” was canny about how it mined the hero’s lore. ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Predicted the Bat-Future 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z “After being shot three times, he’s completely broken, not only physically but spiritually and in his mind, too,” says Damson Idris, who portrays the canny Saint. Damson Idris leads ambitious ‘Snowfall’ into a new season 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Offill is a smart writer with a canny sense of pacing; just when you want to abandon the fragmented puzzle pieces of the novel, she reveals a moment of breathtaking tenderness. Revisiting Marriage and ‘Dept. of Speculation’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z They have a great chance but must be wary of Atlético, a canny and technically gifted team not to be underestimated, as Liverpool discovered. Live UEFA Europa League Football: The Final 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z In a canny bit of marketing, the company has turned Don’s half-ad into a full one, appearing on a billboard in New York and in print in Variety and the New York Post. Sauce material: how Mad Men wrote the new Heinz ads 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Moretti isn’t a flashy visual stylist, but he’s a canny storyteller. ‘Mia Madre’ Review: Mom’s in the Hospital. The Riot Scene Needs Retakes. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z At the time, the murders were a sensation so there are plenty of historical documents, but he has arranged the details in a way that shows a very canny eye for story-telling. Damn His Blood by Peter Moore – review 2013-06-11T10:16:10Z And Radcliffe provides the canny pivotal performance that demonstrates why the world needs sticklers. Review | Daniel Radcliffe a stickler for the truth in buoyant ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Its canny mix of nostalgia and idealism, old-fashioned conservatism and new-age liberalism will hit the spot for some, even if its vision of American unity is hard to recognize right now. ‘The Prom’ Review: Showbiz Sanctimony, and All That Zazz 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Marsh is far too scrupulous, or too canny, to take sides in the dispute between Terrace and his many detractors, but he doesn't have to. Pick of the week: The chimp they tried to turn human 2011-07-08T01:01:00Z That said, the mythically powerful demigod is back on the big screen in the simply titled "Hercules" and the results are canny, fast-paced, and, for what the film attempts to accomplish, enjoyable. Dwayne Johnson's 'Hercules' packs action-filled punch 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Usher also has a canny psychological sensitivity in his lyrics, a dancer’s physical grace and an ear for up-to-the-minute electronic productions that warm to his voice. Review: Usher’s ‘Hard II Love’ Uses Regret as a Selling Point 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z In the current political environment, name-checking the writing of James Joyce may not seem like the canniest move. The Politicians Who Love “Ulysses” 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z On stage and screen Cullum uses what Esbjornson calls "that beautiful character face" and honeyed Tennessee accent to summon a canny blend of emotions — among them affability, underlying severity and utter normalcy — all at once. At 81, John Cullum relishes his two roles in Shakespeare in the Park 2011-06-19T03:42:04Z The photographer Joel Meyerowitz contributed a foreword to the new book, a canny choice given that, like Maier, he learned how to shoot on the streets. What Vivian Maier Saw in Color 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z But it’s canny, too: Turning the focus away from Hollywood makes Hollywood a lot more comfortable with the inquiry. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Look for the intersection between Ms. Lee’s canny deconstructions of identity politics and Sibyl Kempson’s rapturous nonsense. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z At the Beekman Hotel in downtown Manhattan last month, Ms. Shields, the model, actress and veteran of numberless interviews, was delivering but the latest in a series of canny performances. Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Beautiful, canny and manipulative, she makes him simultaneously want to have her, protect her and avoid her. ‘Every Night I Dream of Hell’ takes us deep inside a hit man’s life 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Spielberg is the canny manager of Lincoln, Lee the bold visionary of Life of Pi. Oscars 2013: Richard Corliss’ Picks – Best Director 2013-02-21T22:05:35Z Jude’s genius lies in his ability to turn these words against themselves — to render them absurd through canny juxtapositions of text and image, documentary and fiction. ‘Uppercase Print’ Review: Between the Lines 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Among other things, I could consult with a canny photographer—first James Hamilton, then Robin Holland—to double the thrust, or the irony, of each column. The Closing of the Village Voice, Downtown’s Magic Mirror 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Allen speaks enthusiastically about a personal connection to the art he loves, but he is reportedly a canny investor when it comes to the work he pursues and purchases. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The timing was canny, and I knew it was a crime. Ashley Judd Speaks Out About Twitter Abuse and Rape 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But he grounds that same essay not just in canny observations about Mr. Acconci’s work but in a story about how, as a student in 1974, he helped Mr. Acconci make a video. Review: David Salle’s ‘How to See,’ a Painter’s Guide to Looking at and Discussing Art 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z And she is far too canny at this stage to even think of throwing down her scepter. Dita Von Teese, From Burlesque to a Brand 2012-11-24T00:05:20Z Because Mr. Beane has been such a canny social satirist in the past, I kept hoping he would pull the Aubusson rug out from under the Fitches’ pretensions, both the naughty and virtuous kind. Theater Review | 'Mr. & Mrs. Fitch': In a Gilded World, Theirs Is but to Quip and Sigh 2010-02-23T03:01:00Z This canny mix — the Falsetto Meets the Sopranos — guaranteed a bridge-and-tunnel stream of Garden Staters ready to sing along to some of the most infectious and enduring pop of the ’60s . Jersey Boys Movie Review: Music is Sharp, Drama is Flat 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Given the film is basically a two-hander between a total newcomer and a CGI tiger, Fox made a canny decision in not selling Pi on the strength of name recognition. Oscars 2013: six memorable cameo performances 2013-02-22T07:00:00Z What goosed-up Mr. Gvasalia’s Balenciaga show on Wednesday morning was the scope he brought to notions of office dressing and a canny instinct for the scope of alternatives available in workplaces not unlike one’s own. Who Needs Pants? A New Take on Office Wear From Balenciaga 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Rumours abound of a cut-price plastic iPhone aimed at the Chinese market: a canny business, if it works, but not in keeping with the company's traditionally high-end approach. Is Apple running out of juice? 2013-03-09T14:00:02Z Hook may be the fantasy-farmer of townies' fantasies – ruminative, canny, genial and wistfully affectionate to his animals – but he puts a human, articulate face on the vexed, and vexing, subject of food production. The Moo Man – review 2013-07-11T20:16:00Z These episodes garnered acclaim as canny twists on gender politics, and their critical reception was clearly vaulted by their engagement with current debates around consent. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z But he did provide a canny summation of the theatre season gone by: “Whether you like men dressed as women or drag queens, there’s something for everyone.” The 2014 Tony Awards Go All the Way 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z “Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History” charts her evolution as a canny and influential political spouse. Books of The Times: ‘Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History,’ by Michael L. Gillette 2013-01-08T15:00:00Z In tearing down shikumen, which fostered the canny interdependence of the Shanghainese, government officials are erasing the architectural form that saw the birth of the uniquely Chinese version of Communism. Shanghai Dwellings Vanish, and With Them, a Way of Life 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Frame is sharp on what’s “off” about Naida, and just as canny on how the medical professionals surrounding her handle her. A new Janet Frame story collection: Worth the long wait 2013-06-19T23:08:45Z The marathon was a breath of fresh air in the new-music scene—not to mention a canny feat of marketing. A MacArthur for the Composer Julia Wolfe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The success of this second chapter in his career proved that Smith could be as canny an operator behind the scenes as he was on the air. Mike Smith: The high-flying host 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z I wish I could be more effusive, but “Covenant,” for all its interplanetary ranging, commits itself above all to the canny management of expectations. Review: In ‘Alien: Covenant,’ Everybody’s Favorite Predator Returns 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z He was a bullheaded but canny narcissist, given to drunken harangues and racist demagogy. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z But it would have been cannier of Barnes to make her a genuinely convincing provocateur. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Bernard Gersten, a canny executive who helped turn two of New York’s nonprofit theater companies into powerhouse producers and presenters of award-winning plays and musicals, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. Bernard Gersten, Offstage Star of Nonprofit Theater, Dies at 97 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z It was a canny decision for Mr. Eotvos to mingle speaking and singing, an attempt to evoke the loose boundary between real and surreal. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Gone is Detective Rough, the canny inspector who sets everything straight and explains it all to poor, poor Bella. In a New Take on ‘Gaslight,’ a Heroine Finds Her Own Way 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z And he did something canny: he didn’t exaggerate or satirize Walt’s pretensions; he played them straight, as a needy boy’s desire for approval in an intellectual family. David Denby: Jesse Eisenberg Explores His Dark Side 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z But Whack’s is the sort of exercise that makes us feel curious, not cheated; her canny adaptation to the constraints of social media is not without knowingness or built-in critique. Tierra Whack Stretches the Limits of One-Minute Songs 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z You canny speak Urdu!" and the other replying, "Aye I kin. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z “In a canny way, it tries to present an opposing view.” When Superheroes Battle Evil, Why Does Washington Always Lose? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z I recognise this as a canny effort to rephrase question three in the hope of getting a more satisfactory answer. ‘Where do babies come from?’ How to answer children’s 10 most vexing questions 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z In the beginning of the show, Selina seemed to be a canny woman who recognized that, in order to succeed in Washington, she needed to play and win a man’s game. The New Season of “Veep” Was Not Supposed to Be About Donald Trump 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Interspersed throughout are brief descriptions of Ettore’s photographs, which become a material plot point that draws him and Hirut together decades later, while also working as a canny literalization of the Homeric metaphor. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Which is also to say, of course, that he was fundamentally — brazenly — impure and inauthentic, an artificial, hybrid creature synthesized out of ambition, good looks and canny publicity. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z A problem with her recent work, however, is that it looks too suavely practiced, the unruly, dissonant dimension overly harmonized by her canny formal skills. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Trump is too canny to offer clear promises of jackboots and face-smashing. The Trump who stole Christmas: Win or lose, Donald Trump has ruined everything 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Phalke, at least, was canny enough to build on his early success, producing popular films until the sound era. The birth of India's film industry: how the movies came to Mumbai 2013-07-25T17:07:55Z Wry and canny, Natalia is given to telling stories and sharing quirky folk remedies. What’s up with the glowing baby at the back of the stage? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z When industry insiders talk about Ms. Bündchen, the praise most commonly proffered has less to do with her beauty than with her indomitable good spirits, a canny though untutored intelligence and an almost animal energy. Gisele Inc. 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The story of the Lumières is also a story of canny entrepreneurs. ‘Lumière! Inventing Cinema’ in Paris Celebrates the Birth of Movies 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z But he’s more than just a canny opportunist with his camera. Photographers transcend in 2 new Frye shows 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z To the south of France’s canniest festival of cinema, then, where a buffet of Mel Gibson movies is being shopped to apparently voracious buyers. You want a dark Mel Gibson comedy about rich Jewish people? You got it! 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z His performance is a canny portrait of leadership — part genius, part crazy guts, part dumb luck — and worthy of moving Pitt up to the playoff round of Oscar finalists for Best Actor. Moneyball: Brad Pitt Legs Out a Triple 2011-10-06T18:50:00Z In recent years canny visitors have been heading for lesser-known islands. Greek island holiday guide: the Dodecanese 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z That low-budget titan was a defining hit for Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions, horror specialists with a knack for steering movies with slim budgets into profitable successes by nurturing talent and canny marketing. Why smart horror is putting the fear into sequel-addicted Hollywood 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z “It was a canny shift of the show’s tone, from epic self-aggrandizement to a more casual, at times even likable, persona,” wrote Steve Johnson for The Chicago Tribune. ArtsBeat: Charlie Sheen Turns Things Around in Chicago 2011-04-04T18:47:54Z And as a canny memoirist who knows that her book needs a hook, she packages the writing theme very carefully. Books of The Times: ?Fiction Ruined My Family,? by Jeanne Darst - Review 2011-09-28T21:54:46Z Munch, though heartsick, was not a recluse; he was, in fact, a canny self-promoter who relished the opposition of Norway’s conservative establishment and used news media controversy to build an international career. Naked and Aflame or Considering Death, Munch Rarely Screamed 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Bringing back Travolta, a two-time Oscar nominee, would seem to be a canny move by Zadan and Meron, as his mere presence could turn an ordinary moment into one ripe for comic treatment. Oscars 2015: John Travolta to get a shot at 'Adele Dazeem' redemption 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z In that sense One Santa Fe is a canny attempt by Maltzan to overcome both his own limitations and those that rule planning and building in Los Angeles. Maltzan's One Santa Fe apartment complex plays with notion of density 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Given the main festival’s theme this year, “Youth: Genius and Folly,” you might have hoped that featuring the ensemble represented a sort of canny counter-programming, designed to show that experience, too, has its place. ArtsBeat: Some Misses and Hits at Boston Early Music Festival 2013-06-16T19:31:07Z Mr. Lipski, a veteran public artist with an acute sense of materials, purpose and place, is canny about all these references. 3 Outdoor Art Shows and One Trusty Dog (With Tricks!) 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Stalin was already a ruthless and canny militant in the 1890s when Hitler was still a toddler. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Jones is a canny soul, though, and his appearance at London Fashion Week seemed like a pointed reminder of Vivienne Westwood’s observation that the point of fashion is eventually to get naked. Gender, Lockdown and Really Good Outerwear 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Playing people whose job is to maintain facades, these performers endow their characters with a canny self-awareness and a tellingly varied gift for balancing shell and substance. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z It’s a canny move on the part of the show’s presenters, the American Theater Wing and the Broadway League. Tony Nominations Prove the Musical Has Lost Its Voice 2010-06-11T04:31:00Z Before personal self-invention devolved into dysmorphic disorder, Mr. Jackson showed himself to be an image innovator and yet always one whose presentation was based on a canny study of stagecraft and style. At Louis Vuitton, Michael Jackson Forever 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Each chapter is named for one of them, a canny structure that gradually moves the spotlight of Lex’s attention across her family. What Happens to Siblings Who Survive a House of Horrors? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s just one in a handful of canny symbols in Greenfield’s new feature, a telling encapsulation of the mentality shared by her subjects as they hoist themselves by their own petards. 'She's an unreliable narrator': Lauren Greenfield on her Imelda Marcos documentary 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z As well as being a sneak peek, it served the cannier purpose of proving to the doubters just what a rundown state backstage is in. Liverpool's Everyman theatre says goodbye ? for the moment 2011-07-05T16:30:56Z But mostly we see a flinty, canny survivor whose pain is illuminated only so far. | 'One Night With Fanny Brice': A Funny Girl Strives to Survive 2011-04-13T22:51:50Z And there was something about this little old French lady living in New York that was as tender and ferocious, as indomitable and as canny, as the things she made. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z In 2007, Shadyac, basking in the glory of a substantial career as a canny purveyor of film comedies, took a terrible spill from his bike. Documentary suggests sky not falling after all 2011-03-10T01:59:52Z Opening with three of his most skiffle-indebted songs is a canny move; the young audience find that the lack of a four-to-the-floor beat is no impediment to dancing, and the gig is on its way. Jake Bugg – review 2012-11-15T12:24:04Z More than three decades later, in torn jeans and a plaid work shirt, her hair gray and shorn, she stares frankly into the camera, Lou Reed’s sister from another planet, a canny urban survivor. Review: In ‘I Must Be Living Twice’ and ‘Chelsea Girls,’ Eileen Myles Ruminates 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Its latest find is so perfectly on brand that it could have been retrofitted by a canny theater archaeologist. ‘Becomes a Woman’ Review: A Girl Gets Wise in Brooklyn 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “Oedipe” offered a hushed chorus and then a canny duet in which Oedipus’ rage meets Antigone’s steadiness, a mixture of vigor and calm. Review: Opera Lafayette’s Potent Triumvirate of Daughter, Lover and Mother 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The majority of Gray’s direct reporting comes from two long interviews with Turman, now 91, who, as a Hollywood novice, was canny enough to obtain the rights to Webb’s novel. Throwing a Poolside Cocktail Party for ‘The Graduate’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Most of the artists in the exhibit explore canny variations on Harriel’s chosen theme. Review: Kirkland exhibit asks, Is connectivity really bringing us closer together? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Shakira’s revenge on her ex-boyfriend of 11 years, the soccer player Gerard Piqué, is as much a canny social media beef as a song. Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Chances are this canny comic actress has found a particularly meaty role in “THE LYONS,” the new play by Nicky Silver at the Vineyard Theater. The Week Ahead: Oct. 9 ? 15 2011-10-06T15:27:01Z But don’t expect musty historicism from this canny drama, at Olney Theatre Center in an arresting production directed by Paige Hernandez. Review | Timely ‘The Royale’ comes out swinging 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “Alone With You” is often canny in its creepiness, layering ominous oddities atop each other before the jump scares emerge. ‘Alone With You’ Review: An Anniversary for One 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Sneaker companies are among the canniest of manufacturers, anticipating the needs, wants and desires of their consumers. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Is she a troubled adolescent putting her mental health and physical safety at risk, or a canny role-player using her wide eyes and soft features to construct an avatar of vulnerability? ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z But he's canny enough to steep such reflections in strong characters and details of '70s pop culture: sports, music, muscle cars and really ugly clothes. Crime fiction: new works by Thomas Perry and Cara Black 2012-03-07T22:57:05Z There is a little of Lulu in Petersen’s Emilia Marty — the chilly pragmatism and canny manipulation — but she said that this debut has been a challenge. A Shape-Shifting Opera Singer, With a Debut to Match 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The only thing that's certain is that it took many people to create the song, including the canny, visionary producer Phillips. Elvis Rocks. But He's Not the First 2010-03-12T14:25:00Z Brendan Patrick Hogan’s canny sound design sets the mood even before the lights go up, with a skittering, eerie score that returns to haunt you. ‘Bethany’ at ACT: A mom whose life has crashed — hard 2014-04-19T03:40:16Z Under most circumstances, his canny asides, imitations and bits of pantomime would help enliven a fairly static evening. Spoleto Festival USA Offers Tension and Balance 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z This modernist approach, shared by her lodestar and friend Stravinsky, was also a canny strategy for a woman in a man’s world. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z “She was a positive person, no matter how canny she was and wise about the ways of the world and … the dark side of how government and business work,” Taylor said. Holland Taylor’s Ann Richards: ‘A woman for all seasons’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z You can see how Dawkins might have made a cynical piece full of anger, but the strength of the even-keeled show lies in his canny, appreciative analysis of Disney. Review | ‘Happiest Place’ sadly ponders Disneyland 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z But her most canny deployment of this subject position actually takes place during the first scene, when James’s predecessor dies. 2010-01-09T02:31:00Z It’s a canny way to portray the alienation of this modern married couple who hardly look at each other as they circle the stage, running errands, missing signals. | 'Wolves': Drama by Delaney Britt Brewer at 59E59 Theaters 2010-08-09T02:00:00Z Lane seeks the lighter, more humane side of a dark movement, but also a politically canny one: devil worship here emerges principally as a weapon in a culture war against the Christian right. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Now lines form every weekend, though canny locals know the trick is to go well before opening time. Choice Tables: Delicious Desserts at Stockholm?s Cafes 2010-12-22T23:15:43Z But to do this, philanthropists need to be cannier about their analysis and tactics. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z But he's canny in identifying the two-and-a-half-year Governor of Alaska as both a faultless heroine and, even better, a victim of the omnipotent American Left. The Undefeated: Her Holiness Sarah Palin 2011-07-15T08:55:00Z Still, it is a canny move by Boss, which tends to be typecast as the workplace outfitter of choice for strait-laced white-collar professionals everywhere. Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Suit is Back 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Inside and outdoors, individual and society, the home and the world — all are tangible in these canny works. Review | In the galleries: Tehran doesn’t reveal itself readily 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z They were not bright, but they were canny. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Confessions of a compassionate hit man 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z But as the Real Housewives and Kardashians of the world become more famous, they grow cannier about their public personae, more concerned with their brands and endorsements; consequently, they are less fun to watch. Why Vanderpump Rules is TV’s Tastiest Reality Trash 2014-01-29T22:08:18Z His 1896 portrait of Otto von Bismarck is a subtle take on a knowing and canny if worn and battered character. A return to open-plan design for the renovated Frye 2012-08-16T21:01:12Z But Skillet has also been canny about using viral marketing — online contests and events pegged to the release of singles and videos — to motivate fans, who call themselves Panheads, to spread word about the album. Exalting the Sacred, Wooing the Secular 2013-07-09T21:37:07Z Meanwhile Ciara's recent return to the sound is canny; set against the uptempo European house beats of chart rap, her slowness thrills. Inception brings the trend for slow music to the big screen 2010-07-30T12:04:00Z As a politician, Washington became a canny strategizer with a gift for standing back until the main chance presented itself. Author Ron Chernow explores the fascinating evolution of George Washington 2010-10-06T23:19:00Z With canny, patient navigation, the submarine rose slowly upwards beneath the trawler, to within "a few feet" of its engine propellers, without being detected. Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z Let's contemplate, for a moment, how canny it is for these truths to come from this evil man. The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z The David Bowie who emerges through the exhibition is a canny businessman and hard-working innovator as well as eclectic artist. Show at London's V&A museum celebrates David Bowie 2013-03-20T15:59:12Z “They use it when they need to bolster his support domestically or internationally,” said Dvorchak, who said he thought it was canny public relations. Chinese propaganda frames Xi's US pivot 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Only one person could process that kind of ironic tragedy in real time, only one person could capture the pain and absurdity of it all in a perfectly delivered line or two of canny wit. Matthew Perry was easy to love. And it went deeper than his acting 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z England were canny and committed in the first half, raining down kicks into the South Africa backfield, forcing a steady supply of penalties. Brave England edged out as Boks make final 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Her deft use of social media, the ultimate marketing tool of the 21st century, was seen as either canny or manipulative. You don't have to be a Swiftie to love Taylor Swift. The Eras tour movie premiere proves it 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Trump was perhaps too canny to answer her question; he turned it into an attack on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is challenging him for the nomination. Column: Kristen Welker's 'Meet the Press' Trump interview was a gross dereliction of journalistic duty 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z They may not have been prepared, but they were canny enough to adapt. Dupont and his French team answer call of a nation 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z It was not even who might wrest voter attention back from the canniest scene-stealer in American political life. Which Red Tie Did the Most? 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Was the disgraced legal legend’s behavior evidence of pronounced dementia — or a canny performance? Is Tom Girardi's dementia an act? Court to hear evidence 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Trump “has a very canny read of his supporters and how his language affects his supporters,” Chervinsky said. Trump’s lies tested limits of the bully pulpit. His right to say them is at core of criminal defense 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z This is a canny strategy, for it implies that Lipa’s a normal woman who just hustled her way into an abnormally charmed life while somehow staying grounded. For Dua Lipa, Just Being a Pop Star Isn’t Enough 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s canny marketing, with the promotional giveaways doubtlessly figured into the company’s pricing. Seattle’s most expensive latte costs $8.50. That’s a lot, eh? 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Fred Goodwin did that in buccaneering and bullying style, trampling over the older canny values of conventional Scottish finance with the goal of creating a global giant. The battle over political values in the boardroom 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z After all, most wasps are canny enough to not mess with humans unless they absolutely need to, usually in the context of defending their nests. Wasps are some of nature's smartest, meanest and most misunderstood bugs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The former president suggested all the way back in April that he might skip the event — and that canny threat has been followed by the news media ever since. GOP debate looms as possible last chance to topple Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Sandra Day O’Connor, drawing on her background as an elected official, often seemed to regard herself a canny intuiter of the American middle ground, constantly seeking political balances and settlements. John Roberts, conservative statesman | Ross Douthat 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z A canny and sometimes ruthless politician, Hun Sen has been Cambodia’s top leader for 38 years. Oversight board recommends Facebook suspend Cambodian premier’s account for violent language 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z A movie star for almost half a century, Ford is a canny interview subject. There will never be another Harrison Ford 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Hun Sen is noted as a canny and sometimes ruthless politician, and has since then managed to drive his rival into exile and neutralize all his challengers, even though Cambodia is a nominally democratic state. Cambodian leader Hun Sen, a huge Facebook fan, says he is jumping ship to Telegram 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Ray Fisher incarnates, with natural majesty, the brawn and bravado of Muhammad Ali; Edwin Lee Gibson shambles and stammers as Stepin Fetchit while retaining the dignity of a canny survivor. Review: A powerfully acted play examines Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit's unlikely friendship 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Ivan Menezes, who as chief executive of the spirits corporation Diageo used his canny understanding of the drinking public to help the company grow into a global colossus, died on June 7 in London. Ivan Menezes, Who Led a Liquor Giant, Dies at 63 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Thomas Kail, as it happens, directed both the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical and this satisfying revival, and credit goes to his canny deployment of seismic theatrical talent. Commentary: Why the Tony Awards should give one to the audience this year 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z A charismatic and canny political operative, he has brought a pugnacious attitude to his successive positions that adversaries derided as mere hooliganism but that supporters felt an authentic expression. Turks choose their president in unprecedented runoff race 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z He has picked a long-running fight with Disney, one of Florida’s largest employers and a canny political adversary. In Shaky Start, Ron DeSantis Joins 2024 Race, Hoping to Topple Trump 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z “Small organizations are canny and creative, and I’m glad we’re still here and we’re still talking. But I don’t think we will have the same conversation a year from now if we’re unsuccessful.” California performing arts fell a decade behind in job growth, study finds 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z The election of a youthful president, Bill Clinton, who embraced Hollywood and had a canny understanding of how to leverage pop culture, helped fuel a divisive culture war that would define much of the decade. MTV News was essential to a generation. Former staffers reflect on what's been lost 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z They’re canny enough entertainers to dole out their spectacle with a steady hand. Review: A deep-cut masterwork, 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica' is already one of 2023's best movies 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Trim and boyish at 40, with steely eyes that look out from a freckled face, Golden is a former Marine who is as politically canny as he is courageous. Opinion | Amid the debt ceiling madness, a lonely voice of sanity emerges 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z No man who amasses millions can do that without being canny and far-sighted and possessing a strategic ruthlessness that he deployed on the chessboard and at the poker table as well as in the boardroom. At Richard J. Riordan's book club, nearly 30 years of Proust, wine and friends 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z |
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