| 单词 | shrewd |
| 例句 | The Guardian’s introduction of a “Corrections and Clarifications” column seems to me not only an admirable move, but a shrewd one. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He was a shrewd businessman, but he also gave a lot of money to charities and supported scholarships through his foundation. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Scrimgeour stopped too, leaned on his stick, and stared at Harry, his expression shrewd now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Arkush writes, Chinese proverbs are striking in their belief that “hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Chief looked at him, a long, shrewd look. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There was a shrewd, buoyant air about him as he sat up, looked round and rubbed both front paws over his nose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She folded her arms across her chest, leaned back a little, and gave me a shrewd look. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z While these doubts were passing through Sam’s slow but shrewd mind, he stood gazing out towards the dark cliff of Cirith Gorgor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I have thought a great deal about this passage, also about a particularly shrewd remark once made by, of all people, Bunny. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Since leaving the warren of the snares they had become warier, shrewder, a tenacious band who understood each other and worked together. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nero eyed Kendra and Seth before fixing Grandma with a shrewd gaze. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Where had he seen that frog-like face, that tortoise-like neck, that hunched up attitude—yes and those pale shrewd little eyes? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Each of their stone-carved gazes was all too shrewd, as though they knew he was about to steal from them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Unlike the shrewd fisherman of Gont, this old man, for fear and wonder of his wizardry, would have given the boat to Ged. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Alex picks up his own glass, already pulling up a mental image of Henry's parents, Catherine’s shrewd blue eyes and Arthur’s movie-star jaw. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The detective was conscious of those strange shrewd eyes summing him up before the other spoke again. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone, therefore, who examines in detail the actions of this man, will find him both a very ferocious lion and a very shrewd fox. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Taking the cross in his great hands—where it seemed even smaller than it was—he peered at it with his shrewd eyes, even feeling it with his fingers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z "It is not only legal, Mr. McSouthers," Judge Ford replied, signing her name to the check and handing it to the doorman, "it is a shrewd way to keep everyone playing the game." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is not unbearable,” said she, watching me with her shrewd eyes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He radiates power, his dark eyes shrewd and intelligent. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z His one eye was shrewd and very thoughtful. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z His ultimate aspiration was to be president of the United States, which meant his approach to solving the threat would require precision and shrewd calculation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The old woman gave her a shrewd look. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Of all the gods he was the shrewdest and most cunning; in fact he was the Master Thief, who started upon his career before he was a day old. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "Is it true, my lord?" asked the High Septon, a small, shrewd man with a wispy white beard and wizened face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was the Machiavelli of Ohio politics, the classic behind-the-scenes fixer, a shrewd and insightful judge of character or, at least, political opportunity. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His head moved on his shoulders like a bird's: alert, inquisitive, shrewd. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “My boys are young, but they are very shrewd. They know how to take care of their mothers and sisters.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But now I understand the gravity of what I was proposing— that a four-year-old child be watchful, prudent, and shrewd, that I curtail your happiness, that you submit to a loss of time. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Rather, the shrewd and ruthless dictator immediately grasped the implications of such a powerful weapon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They take turns leaning forward to point out their moves with shrewd congeniality, playing it like a chess match, the kind of game that allows civilized men to play at make-believe murder. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We were fed at the temple,” I said, not meeting those shrewd eyes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Frodo said nothing: the shrewd guesses of the farmer were rather disconcerting. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To halt the campaign while it was still on the offensive would be a shrewd move that would capture the headlines. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Snape, too, was looking at Harry in an unexpected way: It was a shrewd and calculating look, and Harry didn’t like it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Like Washington, he saw Jay’s Treaty as a shrewd if bittersweet bargain designed to postpone war with England for perhaps a generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When I first went to her house for supper she gave me a queer, shrewd, searching look, and I knew she was trying to tell whether I was a virgin or not. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Cleopatra was a shrewd, capable, and experienced leader. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He adopted a shrewd expression, which, on S.Q., looked rather as if he had severe indigestion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It looked to him they were shrewder guessers than their elders who were trying to believe that not a shot had been, or would be, fired. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Benjamin Ross was described as “twenty-eight years of age, chestnut color, medium size and shrewd.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A narrow man, but iron-willed and shrewd, and as good a soldier as the Reach could boast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He leaned forward slightly and his manner took on a shrewd and significant air. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Black Dog laughed and regarded me in a cold shrewd way. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As it turns out, though, betrayal can also breed penitents, shrewd minor politicians, and ghosts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Perched above the window, the Old Bear’s raven peered down at him with shrewd black eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Your heart is shrewd as well as faithful, and saw clearer than your eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Lanning grinned too, and, as always at such times, his long white hair and shrewd little eyes made him the picture of a biblical patriarch, “True for you, Dr. Calvin.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Dear old Hogwarts,” he said, looking up at the castle and smiling; his teeth were rather yellow, and Harry noticed that his smile did not extend to his eyes, which remained cold and shrewd. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z ‘Old Maggot is a shrewd fellow,’ said Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There was much sense in your smile: it was very shrewd, and seemed to make light of your own abstraction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Morrison, whom Agent Burger described as an “unusually shrewd and reckless and self-confessed criminal,” dressed like a dance-hall hustler. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Valencia stayed with him, and Kilgore Trout, who had been on the fringe of the crowd, came closer, interested, shrewd. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He considered me for yet a while with his shrewd, wet eyes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Ekon felt the shrewd evaluation in the man’s hawkish eyes as he looked over each of them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was a shrewd naturalist in his own right, and often brought back samples of flora or fauna for pay. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z While he looked exactly what he was, a shrewd politician, his voice was gentle when he spoke. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With a shrewd look at his niece, Matthew Wood interceded for her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Angular and elegant, he was precariously thin, with nervous hands and a shrewd albino face and a short, fiery mop of the reddest hair I had ever seen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He is plausible, convincing, likable, and far and away the most wily, subtle, and shrewd of all the inhabitants of Asgard. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The Club was shrewd enough to feel this division in Francie and tried to use her as a go-between. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the twilight the memory of him was very sharp, the soft pink skin aging on his fine cheekbones, the thin aristocratic nose, the eyes, so shrewd and yet so loving. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The private eyes learned that the marriage had been orchestrated by Minnie Savage—a “shrewd, immoral, capable woman,” as one investigator put it, who ran a boardinghouse in Pawhuska. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Nin hesitated for a long moment, her shrewd gaze darting from the shadows in the undergrowth to the flashes of red on the road. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life.' The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Collins, a shrewd analyst, would comment on the moves that Bobby did and didn’t play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Returning, he looked at me sharply, his withered face an animated black walnut with shrewd, reddish eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The banker studied her with shrewd dark eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Some show a shrewd knowledge of human nature:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet also he was keen, shrewd, direct to the center of a thing. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z And yet he was shrewd, you had to grant. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Always looked half asleep, but was shrewd as could be when it came to a point of law. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Old pig’s eyes, I thought, shrewd and wily. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He would try to hold every inch of his soil, to defend every man, woman, and child who named him lord, and Tywin Lannister was shrewd enough to know that. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was shrewd too, never tempting arrest by carrying guns or cash. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Critical to the publicity’s success was Howard’s shrewdest decision. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The old, on the other hand, are shrewd, “sour-tempered,” crabbed with disappointment, and have “many opinions but no knowledge”: they never leap wholeheartedly into a thing, but always hedge around it with “maybe” and “perhaps.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t believe there’s ever been such a clever student at my Institute as you. You have a shrewd, strong mind. I saw this at once. And you are a natural leader.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Last year, as a show of community support, and shrewd marketing, they drained their artificial waterways. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His favorite companion on these tours was Mercury, the most entertaining of all the gods, the shrewdest and the most resourceful. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a shrewd, soft-spoken man who was well-disposed to our mission, but his perception of the situation surprised and dismayed me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The faded blue eyes, shrewd in spite of their age, sized up Lombard. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z She stared at the dwarf's brutal bulging brow, the hard black eye and the shrewd green one, the crooked teeth and wiry beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Time and again, she amazed him with a “shrewd ‘guess’” that was worth more than “a whole day’s painstaking labor.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z G. W., by contrast, is happy to entrust himself to ‘strong, and shrewd conjectures’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She’s not exactly beautiful, but there’s a definite story in her shrewd blue eyes and angular features, the heavy creases of frowns around her mouth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mary was also a shrewd and intuitive judge of character, an emotionally intelligent woman who paid close attention to her surroundings and the people around her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She was shrewd enough not to debate it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Maybe,” he allowed, but his eyes were shrewd. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Abigail remained confident that Jefferson could be trusted, that the bipartisan direction was the proper course, and the inclusion of a prominent Republican on the peace delegation to France, probably Madison, was a shrewd move. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z In the midst of the pandemonium Gershom Bulkeley quietly reached for the copybook, studied it carefully, and turned a shrewd, deliberative eye upon Kit. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He assesses them with his shrewd, twinkly, ironic little eyes and calls them “sir,” as if they’re his graduate students. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Mormont’s raven watched with shrewd black eyes, then fluttered to the window. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had a shrewd head, like the captain’s own.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Many cultures have venerated high places as the uncanny domain of gods and magic; shrewd or ambitious individuals could borrow some of this power via an alpine pilgrimage, quest, retreat or campaign. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z His rival Hugh Hefner, for all his Playboy playmates, was still a midwestern Methodist in his careful speech and shrewd business practices. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z This energetically choreographed, outrageously costumed and boldly designed staging gave full evidence of Kosky’s shrewd theatrical instincts. Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Brightens Up Berlin 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Ms. Barrymore was shrewd enough not to respond directly: “I’d like to know what you think,” she said. Drew Barrymore Is Keeping It Clean 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z But the real story behind the compilation involves Holzman's shrewd development of Simon's career. New Carly Simon compilation "These Are the Good Old Days" tells a wistful music industry story 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Though the ideas underpinning “Glass Guignol” are shrewd, the biographical context wrenching, the staging seemingly audacious, the play itself is often inert. Review: A Gothic Tennessee Williams Mash-Up in ‘Glass Guignol’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Someone shrewder could have made better use of its marriage of history and blockbuster cinema to comment on our addiction to violent, explosive versions of American mythmaking. Bro, say can you see? "America: The Motion Picture" shows we're not just dumb, we're drawn that way 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z It contains a clever demonstration of capitalism and a shrewd central irony: the philanthropists are the exploited workforce, because it is they who keep the rich in their big houses. Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z Much of the time, the book’s political purpose is masked by Greenblatt’s expert and shrewd reading of plays, those well-known and those less so. Review | What can ‘Macbeth’ teach us about President Trump’s next move? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Being sphinxlike not only enhances their haughty, statuesque image, but is also shrewd business, especially in their homeland. Kazaky, a Boy Band, Is Everywhere 2012-08-01T23:09:08Z “It was a simple matter,” Morrow writes, “of being shrewder than King Cecrops, more resourceful than Lord Poseidon, and as wise as Lady Athena.” James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z A shrewd observer of herself as well as of other people, she avoids the twin traps of psychobabble and too much information. How to stay married. (Don't get divorced) 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z But my assessment of him has always been that he is a shrewd businessman first and a conservative second. How 'Family Guy' Tried to Talk About Abortion 2010-07-19T22:08:00Z The possibility that Elizabeth could have been a shrewd and ruthless political player in her own right — a Machiavellian prince rather than a cursed fairy tale princess — is ruled out. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The shrewd, perky teenager we meet at the start of “Sooner/Later” not only masterminds her single mother’s social life, but also offers encouragement and fashion tips. Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z But because Hill is a shrewd and cunning writer, over 24 novels he has given us a character who rises above the stereotype. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z But it is as a shrewd, eloquent, and often moving critic of music – from Bach to Schoenberg – that Rosen will be remembered. Charles Rosen obituary 2012-12-10T18:13:31Z A deep thinker and a shrewd tactician, Norman has taken on almost mythical grandeur in his comrades’ memories. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z It made me wonder if Celia Johnson made a shrewd choice in Brief Encounter by settling for a fat chap called Fred. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2013-02-07T08:00:04Z Howard Johnson’s, for example, appealed to families and pioneered franchising as a shrewd business plan. New in Paperback: ‘Winter,’ ‘Ten Restaurants That Changed America’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z O’Keeffe knew she owed her sales and glowing reviews in large part to Stieglitz’s shrewd promotion. Review | Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz and the artists they inspired 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z But it’s also a shrewd way to build suspense. ‘Shoplifters’ Review: A Family That Steals Together, Stays Together 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z But it is in her asides that Dunant finally triumphs, like all good novelists: in a deft, shrewd, precise use of killer detail. Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant – review 2013-05-02T09:00:01Z Later, activists began to petition for Black ownership of franchises located in Black neighborhoods — a demand that McDonald’s was initially slow to meet but eventually pursued out of shrewd self-interest. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Written and directed by Leigh Whannell, this shrewd, cleverly updated version plays with the different meanings of “romance” by fusing the basic conceit from Wells’s uncanny tale with the fallout of an abusive romantic relationship. ‘The Invisible Man’ Review: Gaslight Nation, Domestic Edition 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Taproot Theatre's mounting of "An Ideal Husband" captures the crisp wit and shrewd insights of Oscar Wilde, the playwright-racounteur you'd most want to be seated near at an 1890s London dinner party. Into the Wilde with Taproot's 'Ideal Husband' 2011-10-03T18:07:04Z However, the Pew analysis seems to suggest that the guys are being the shrewder partners, at least financially. Why Men Want to Get Remarried More than Women Do 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Even at his worst — I mean as a filmmaker, not a political thinker — he consistently proves to be an able craftsman and a shrewd showman. Review: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Has Guts and Glory. But Where’s the Gun? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z His maintaining this is about him, not you, while they process this would be the kind and mature thing, not to mention shrewd. Embrace the adventure of moving abroad 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z In Holsinger’s shrewd novel, a group of friends jockey to get spots for their offspring in a new school for the intellectually blessed. At This Book Club, the Truth Is About to Come Out. It’s Not Pretty. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Instead, what’s intriguing about “Fault Lines” is its shrewd commentary on Japan’s societal expectations of women as either sex objects or dutiful mothers. Review | Societal expectations? Please. For the female protagonists in these 3 debut novels, it’s time to break the mold. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z But this rom-com leans on shrewd writing rather than star power in its nine interlocking love stories, all happening in the same New England town on the same moonless night. Theater Review: ‘Almost, Maine’ Is a World of Vignettes 2014-02-05T21:15:58Z Machado's shrewd, even devious work with the point of view of his narrators positions him alongside Henry James. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z Schroeder and Finale approached their herculean assignment with unstinting resourcefulness and shrewd musical instinct. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z He’s moved the setting to revolutionary France, a choice that shows shrewd understanding of the idealistic political climate that affected Shelley’s thinking; the new Republic is its own kind of Frankenstein’s monster. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z “A Hologram for the King” Tom Tykwer’s shrewd adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel opens with an exuberant rendition of the Talking Heads’ classic, “Once in a Lifetime.” Best empty theaters: the 10 best films without an audience in 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z This is a shrewd screenplay — it uses tragedy to retroactively indict political systems. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “I mean, Trump isn’t stupid. He’s street smart. He’s shrewd. But he’s not an original thinker.” John Dean, Who Worked for Nixon, Sizes Up Trump 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z You probably know Curtis Jackson as rapper 50 Cent, whose shrewd business moves have made him almost as rich as Jay-Z. Plenty of new shows to check out this spring and summer 2014-04-25T18:58:31Z AC/DC has been shrewd, if at times capricious, about the way it licenses its music. The Brothers Who Built AC/DC 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Stick these two giants together, as the shrewd Just for Laughs festival did on Sunday night, and you get a very potent mix. Martin, Short in comedic order of sweet, sour 2011-06-20T21:27:00Z The characters find their way through loss, violence or fractured relationships in tales salted with shrewd humor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z They were marvelously shrewd but approachable and witty. Prime Cuts From Jenny Diski’s Catalog of Intimate, Witty Essays 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z She tells her stories with frustration and bite, and with shrewd poetic accumulation. Small, radiant new plays in the burbs 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Tensions arise within the group, which Eichmann is shrewd enough to try to exploit. Review: In ‘Operation Finale,’ the Agonizing Hunt for a Nazi 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z More than once she reveals a streak of shrewd self-interest hidden beneath her oneness with the universe. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z “Hold on,” said one shrewd student whose papers for class revealed more than she volunteered in discussion. Why I banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” — and why we need it more than ever 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z In all of them Tóibín's focus is laser-incisive, illuminating complexities and contradictions of behavior in prose that couldn't be more shrewd or clear. In 'The Empty Family,' Colm T?ib?n's penetrating eye sees all: straight, gay, past, present 2011-01-12T22:50:04Z Mr. Carey is a shrewd reader, reminding us of what was perhaps Golding’s greatest gift as a novelist, his ability to go into “Martian mode, showing familiar things from an alien viewpoint.” Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z Popkey presents us with a shrewd record of the act of unflinchingly circling these amorphous notions of pain, desire and control, all the while quietly noting their clichéd contrivances in snarky, dark humor. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z A familiarity with recent scholarship might have produced a more sophisticated depiction of Native Americans’ shrewd responses to repeating firearms. Guns, Gunfights and the Legends of the Wild West 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s shrewd marketing, signaling to parents that diversity is a priority. Tween Stars Wanted: Must Be Primed for Pressure 2011-05-10T12:45:47Z She is a shrewd observer of a certain kind of middle-class woman, no longer young and not quite beautiful, whom society finds it easy to overlook. In Praise of Barbara Pym 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z However, the young Ms. Green is more than just a nostalgic, flannel-era fabulist; her singsong hooks are conduits to lyrics of shrewd self-awareness and insouciant honesty, and her distorted guitars have palpable strength. Pop & Rock Listings for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Along the way, Schwartz imparts a final lesson — “the meaning of life” — to his onetime protege while wrestling with a body that’s betraying a shrewd mind. Review | Theater J’s tear-jerking two-hander ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ imparts enduring life lessons 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Genre movies are something of a rarity in the main slate, but Ms. Denis’s daring, dialectical sensibility, her shrewd fusion of the visceral and the cerebral, transcend genre. Strangeness and Daring at the New York Film Festival 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z He comes across as a shrewd, well-meaning parvenu who savors the expensive, tacky trappings of his success but who has no mythic stature whatsoever. Movie Review: ‘The Look of Love’ Stars Steve Coogan as a Sex Impresario 2013-07-04T20:55:14Z In England, the saintly Archbishop Anselm had confronted Henry I over these ideals, and Becket witnessed similar struggles at first hand as a clerk in the service of the gentle but shrewd Archbishop Theobald. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z Ms. Carmon does a fine job of showing how shrewd Justice Ginsburg was as a women’s rights lawyer, deliberately taking on male plaintiffs who had been disenfranchised in their caregiver roles. Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Kluge uses a shrewd local fixer called Big Ben to comment on the caves’ import too. Books of The Times: ?The Master Blaster? by P. F. Kluge 2012-03-25T21:54:42Z I thought that was a very shrewd idea and wondered if there are any variations of that I could do. Return to Paris 2010-02-26T09:45:00Z His timing couldn’t be shrewder or more fortunate. Critics? Choice: New Music From Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson 2010-04-18T23:21:00Z In a shrewd move, pop-up versions of Le Baron followed jet-setters wherever they landed: the Cannes film festival, Calvi on the Rocks in Corsica, Art Basel in Switzerland and in Miami. French Impresarios Infiltrate New York?s Party Scene 2012-02-24T22:57:05Z As these story lines converge, the author's shrewd intentions become clear. Crime fiction: lingering shadows of World War II in three new suspense novels 2011-04-06T23:05:04Z In every respect except shoes, the first woman to hold the job is just like her male predecessors: a shrewd arts manager, a brilliant fundraiser, a passionate advocate for the arts. One woman, three parties. A whirlwind welcome for new Kennedy Center president. Her first play, The Sugar Syndrome, was a shrewd study of phobia and obsession. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z With shrewd observations and snappy anecdotes, Goldstein, a host of NPR’s “Planet Money,” shows how currency may be humanity’s most successful fiction: an i.o.u. that promises the holder nothing but more paper money. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Yet Douglas was also shrewd enough to avoid the pitfalls of typecasting. Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend and star of Spartacus, dies aged 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Hindman dedicates several sections to the Composer, but all we really learn about him is that he is both shrewd and stupid. Pretending to Play the Violin 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Far from being a goofball tautology, that declaration is a shrewd assessment of monarchy management in an era when image rules supreme. Queen Elizabeth II Sets a Style Standard 2012-06-01T16:59:27Z She had a shrewd outside producer in Joe Henry, who also contributed lyrics to a track; she had the inestimable advantage of her working band, which she has honed like a steel blade. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z What’s most interesting about the paper, though, is the way it tackles the therapeutic industry – which is either shrewd or paranoid, depending on your perspective. Report: Sex addiction is B.S. 2013-02-06T22:53:00Z From his first moment, quizzically interviewing the unlikely secretarial candidate Miep, everything Schreiber wants us to know about Frank is apparent: the stiff reserve, the shrewd pragmatism, the quiet nobility, the sneaky sense of humor. ‘A Small Light’ Review: A Profile in Extreme Courage 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “Nightmare” described a lynching, and “A Wink at Justice” told the story of a shrewd judge who makes a Solomonic decision in the case of eight black men arrested for gambling. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z A quiet, shrewd observer, he sees the arrogance and willful ignorance that lead the Narváez expedition to disaster in the New World. Surviving the New World in Laila Lalami's 'The Moor's Account' 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The movie is too shrewd to qualify as a jeremiad, but underneath the comedy are boiling undercurrents of anger and despair. In ‘The Humbling,’ Al Pacino Plays an Aging Performer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I'm told they were both shrewd business women who "ran a tight ship" and "did not suffer fools gladly." This sweet and tart lemon cake is the easiest bake you'll ever make 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Much of what he said was, beneath the charm, shrewd. Dance Review: A Way With Balanchine (and With a Talking Dancer, Too) 2010-09-17T22:28:00Z Despite its shrewd bits, this slim book also has longueurs and repetitions, and Ballard’s prose had lost, by the end, a bit of its elastic snap. Books of The Times: J. G. Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’ 2013-02-05T21:10:03Z In the beginning, Winner made a name for himself as a shrewd, capable and industrious director with plenty of spark. Michael Winner was maybe over-indulged. But he was a pioneer of sorts 2013-01-21T20:45:26Z He is played with cool, shrewd, watchful restraint by Oscar Isaac, with longish black hair and an unkempt beard, looking for all the world like a young Martin Scorsese. Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis - first look review 2013-05-18T22:10:24Z But “Metropolitan” was a shrewd movie about New York City private-school alumni on winter break from preppy colleges. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z He was gifted, shrewd and wealthy, a family man with four children, married to a woman he loved. A Bridge from Moscow to Paris: 130 Works of Modern Art 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The "Montero" video is a masterpiece of provocation praised by historians for its shrewd incorporation of Renaissance-style religious iconography to condemn homophobia, immediately triggering Christian conservatives and grandstanding right-wing con artists like Candace Owens. The liberating pink power of Lil Nas X's trolling continues in new music video "Industry Baby" 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z But if there is anything this final season has confirmed, it is that “House of Cards” has always been perfectly set up for Claire’s shrewd supremacy. Onscreen, Women Are Giving Patriarchy the Pink Slip 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z But she made shrewd use of her potential liabilities. Art Review: ‘Candid,’ Photos by Homai Vyarawalla, at Rubin Museum 2012-08-23T22:02:45Z And Mr. Spielberg, a shrewd entertainer who can be waylaid by moralism, rarely lets virtue drag this movie down. Review: In ‘The Post,’ Democracy Survives the Darkness 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z And when Lowrie's sardonic Falstaff shows us, for a change, he's no doltish dupe but a shrewd hustler who meets his match. Review: A wise Mistress Page and a well-rounded Falstaff shine in Seattle Shakes' 'Merry Wives' 2011-04-27T21:33:07Z More than just a sop to his base of red-state, red-meat values voters, the investment in “Let There Be Light” may be a shrewd financial one for the enraged Trump advocate. See the trailer for Sean Hannity’s faith-based film starring Kevin Sorbo 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z 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 It evolves into an open-hearted yet shrewd look at the document’s tragic blind spots, and then into a hard-nosed but hopeful attempt to press onward. The Best Theatre of 2018 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z His judgments throughout the book are shrewd and balanced. Missionary zeal 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z That first third, “How We Read,” takes up fully two-thirds of the book, leaving only the last hundred pages or so for Mr. Seidenberg’s shrewd diagnoses and prescriptions. ‘Language at the Speed of Sight’ Fights to Reopen Our Closed Book on Literacy 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Gibson, “an able craftsman and a shrewd showman,” lacks subtlety, and his “appetite for gore is without equal in modern Hollywood,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ and ‘Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z I suspect that this shrewd and dreamy, serious-but-not-solemn novel will be an uncommonly good audiobook, for people who are into that sort of thing. He’s 101, She’s 32, and It’s the End of the World 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z More than a century later, Tolstoy’s sensitive and shrewd depiction of Levin and Kitty’s relationship continues to be one of literature’s best portrayals of marriage. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z When she first laid eyes on Ms. Morris, her shrewd old instincts were exactly right. ‘Price of Fame,’ a Biography of Clare Boothe Luce 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z But Mr. Corman, who turns 85 this year, is more than a shrewd businessman with a keen eye for new talent. DVDs: The Apocalypse Served Straight Up 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z This debut novel by Smallwood, a shrewd cultural critic, is about Dorothy, an adjunct professor of English who is recovering from a recent miscarriage. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z To be fair, she has been subject to plenty of sexist belly-aching—what might read as ambitious or confident in her male counterparts is derided, in Swift, as shrewd, conniving, callous. Taylor Swift’s Netflix Special Is the End of an Era 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z What emerges is a shrewd commentary on globalization and how each country contributes to the product’s end result. The 10 best Labor Day movies for folks who can't watch "9-to-5" one more time 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Mackenzie’s shrewd plotting is enlivened by her sharp eye for both Johannesburg’s high life and its desperate poverty. Africa is setting for three new mysteries 2013-05-08T21:09:14Z His words are shrewd, emotional and a little impolite, at least by conservative America’s standards, but his tell-it-how-you-see-it approach began early. Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry: if Trump gets elected 'it's going to be Mad Max' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Every viewer seems to believe that only his or her preternaturally shrewd powers of observation have noticed that Durst is a veritable grab bag of tics, twitches, winks, shrugs and mouth-wipings. “Killed them all, of course”: The astonishing finale of HBO’s “The Jinx” redeems the true-crime series’ many weaknesses 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z And what is true of the soundtrack applies to the movie a whole, which is a shrewd blend of conventional pop-culture pandering and exalted cinematic artistry. Movie Review | 'How to Train Your Dragon': A 3-D Adventure Based on a Book by Cressida Cowell 2010-03-25T23:13:00Z He managed the story with a sure hand and a shrewd eye and I certainly think it is Miller's finest hour thus far. Cannes 2014 awards: Timothy Spall an anchor in a stormy night of surprises 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Those that bear a designer's stylistic imprimatur tend to be shrewder investments, likely to retain at least a portion of their original value. On the Runway Blog: Ground Rules for a Shopper 2012-12-12T21:49:35Z “He’s very shrewd for that age,” said Bill Hader, who first recommended him to Mr. Michaels. Pete Davidson Nuzzles Up to the Prickly Joke 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But though Asim is a shrewd and critical thinker, his intelligence and sharp wit more often than not alienate him from others. Review | In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom — and confusion — in the punk rock scene 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Stephen appears to share his commitment while proving himself a shrewd operator beyond his years. Movie Review: Cynicism Alongside Hope at Venice Film Festival 2011-09-01T12:30:05Z Keeping the London 94.9FM show is an extremely shrewd move. Radio head: Vanessa Feltz 2010-11-24T08:00:00Z Question: What does a shrewd defendant wear to court? Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z That doesn’t look like a W’ — this wasn’t going to fly in the English-speaking world, so he made changes, which I think was very shrewd. Hermann Zapf, 96, Dies; Designer Whose Letters Are Found Everywhere 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z It was a rare mix of uninhibited solo and collective improv, shrewd arrangement, and dazzling thematic writing that marked out Ban as a coming force in contemporary music. This week's new live music 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z He’s shrewd enough to understand the potency of the past while also recognizing that a secure future needs subtle changes. The New York Restaurant Where (Almost) Nothing Has Changed Since 1975 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z These viral moments occur in wide-ranging interviews that often clock in at 30 minutes or longer, but they have a tendency to overshadow the hosts' more shrewd political questions. How ‘The Breakfast Club,’ home to brash hosts and irate rappers, became a one-of-a-kind campaign stop 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Pullman turns a shrewd eye to institutional corruption, the casual evil of complicity, the systematic subjugation of the poor and the vulnerability of women navigating a man’s world. Review | Philip Pullman returns to the world of ‘His Dark Materials’ with ‘The Secret Commonwealth’ 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z But Fleming offers some sharply funny satire on business waffle and is shrewd enough to suggest that consultants occasionally expose the gentlemanly amateurism of the commercial sector. The Consultant ? review 2011-03-28T21:15:00Z Mr. Faber delivers shrewd grace notes, as well. ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z It was a shrewd observation, but Lenin was not as far from the god-builders as he liked to think. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z If I want the pleasure and remove and aesthetic pleasure of shrewd, clever irony, I can always hang with Heti. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, casting Morgan Freeman — currently laboring under his own cloud of sexual-harassment allegations — as Banks’ spiritual mentor may not have been Shadyac’s shrewdest move. ‘Brian Banks’ Review: Falsely Accused, and Fighting Back 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z As Austen remarks with shrewd sarcasm in Mansfield Park, "the enthusiasm of a woman's love is beyond even a biographer's". The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Because Bend is a hop-crazy town, he probably thinks our selections are shrewd and meaningful. Even beer skeptics can enjoy Oregon’s craft-brewery mecca 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Don’t let the bushy coats fool you: The stars of this documentary, arctic wolves, are shrewd and dangerous hunters who prey on musk oxen, animals much bigger than them. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘American Crime Story’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z She was a tireless worker, a prolific writer and a fiercely intelligent woman with a shrewd eye for human foibles, an acerbic sense of humour and an immense enthusiasm for life. Maeve Binchy, we'll miss you 2012-07-31T17:00:04Z It’s a shrewd choice that makes June sound younger than she is — sometimes immature; sometimes demanding pity; sometimes outright deranged. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Srinivasan, an Oxford professor, has developed an enthusiastic following for her shrewd writing in The London Review of Books, with topics ranging from campus culture wars to the intellect of octopuses. 11 New Works of Nonfiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The Times’s chief Washington correspondent offers a shrewd, entertaining look at the machinations surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court and the ominous political divisions his confirmation hearings revealed. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Psychologically shrewd with a biting comic edge, this tightly made drama shows what happens to a family on a skiing vacation when the father flees an impending avalanche rather than staying to protect his children. Cannes 2014 departs, leaving strong emotions in its wake 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Maybe he's being shrewd and waiting until the finale to ditch the guitar, going....um...."naked" for lack of a better word. Analyzing the 'American Idol' Top 5: Lots of testosterone and guitars 2010-05-02T19:31:00Z We watch as Paige, whose brother died in the Iraq War, develops from a marginal figure in the movement to one of its shrewdest operatives. 'American Subversive': A suspenseful novel of domestic terrorism 2010-05-12T23:21:00Z This shrewd, timely novel presents a multigenerational portrait of two families linked by the fear that gripped post-World War II British society: the prospect of nuclear annihilation. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The film holds off until the end to show Teddy the werewolf, but it does so at a distance, a restrained and shrewd choice that becomes the film’s most haunting visual takeaway. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Along with other projects that engage Ms. Ligon as a combined performer/documentarian, Ms. Laser’s piece speaks to the shrewd use of photography that distinguishes the social-media-savvy “Pier 54” artists from their predecessors. ‘Pier 54’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Then I think there can be a more skeptical follower who still admires her, but more as a shrewd businesswoman than for the values or the life she ostensibly embodies. This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on the Necessity of Writing Sex Scenes 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z None of this is lost on a man who was shrewd enough to run as both an insider and outsider. As the GOP’s anti-Trump, Ben Sasse picked a big fight. What would it mean to win? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Something similar, if less showy, is conveyed in “Lady in Green,” its bold lines and subtle elongations hinting at someone shrewd, wary and utterly composed. Peggy Strong retrospective raises more questions than it answers about her career 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Above all, when she looks at her life, Henson sees the payoff from years of hard work and shrewd decision-making. Taraji P Henson: 'I'm glad I kept my ego in check' 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z “They were marvelously shrewd but approachable and witty.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Hitler was shrewd about seizing power, but he was too restless and reckless to govern. In the Second Volume of ‘Hitler,’ How a Dictator Invited His Own Downfall 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z A Midwesterner, he relied on an open, friendly manner, a polite approach and a shrewd strategy. Bill Jones, Photographer of the Black Glitterati, Dies at 81 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Alessi was jabbing and precise in his negotiations with the form, while Mr. Parks was stylish and shrewd. Ravi Coltrane and Company Perform at Jazz Standard 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z If Washington’s policymakers were indeed pursuing a coherent strategy — as opposed to simply demonstrating a knack for opportunism — that strategy’s defining feature was not isolationism but a shrewd preference for plucking low-hanging fruit. Where Does American Foreign Policy Go From Here? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Beneath Rabe’s alabaster beauty is a shrewd intelligence marked by disillusionment, and a vulnerability that allows her characters to get swept off their feet despite themselves. Michael Schulman: Lily Rabe in “Much Ado About Nothing,” at the Delacorte 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Don DeLillo, in “Libra,” wrote, “A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn’t already, and make a million.” ‘The Premonitions Bureau’ Recounts Crowdsourcing the Supernatural 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z The brim of Antonin Proust's hat throws a shadow over one shrewd eye, glittering in the dark. Manet: Portraying Life – review 2013-01-26T19:44:58Z His explanations of changes in style and genre are illuminating, and illustrated by shrewd musical selections. ‘Moonage Daydream’ Review: David Bowie’s Sound and Vision 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s showy, impulsive, shrewd, gripping and maybe a little unhinged, and so is the rest of the album. Notable Releases From Sia and Mary Sarah 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z That is about half the total that British bankers paid themselves in bonuses in 2011, which makes Cern and the Large Hadron Collider on the Franco-Swiss border look like a shrewd investment. Christmas gifts 2012: the best science books 2012-11-28T13:00:01Z It’s a shrewd, modernizing change that frees Wendy from the straitjacket of gender, allowing her simply to be a child rather than a surrogate mom or potential romantic foil. ‘Wendy’ Review: Where Playtime Goes On … and On 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Lind is well matched by Alison Wright’s shrewd Emilia, Desdemona’s handmaiden and Iago’s wife, who has a will as sharp as her acerbic tongue. Review: A Cool-Tempered ‘Othello’ for Warm Central Park Nights 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Yet, as O’Toole herself describes him, Wilson was also a shrewd politician, deft at shifting his views and reshaping his policies in order to gain power and be able to do important things with it. Woodrow Wilson Achieved a Lot. So Why Is He So Scorned? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z He would have qualified as what a shrewd social observer like Martha Stewart referred to as the “fancies.” Events Like a Drawing Center Benefit and the Winter Antiques Show Gala Cater to the Rich and Famous 2014-01-29T23:20:15Z Yet in “Clyde’s,” Nottage does something shrewd with the obvious underlinings that can sometimes make her meticulously researched plays feel didactic. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The reader who sticks with “How Music Works” will occasionally be rewarded with a shrewd bit of insight or gossip. Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z Was Argentina dissuaded from launching an earlier invasion of the islands, in 1977, by Margaret Thatcher's less bellicose but militarily shrewder predecessor, Jim Callaghan, who despatched a submarine to the south Atlantic as a deterrent? Secrets of the Conqueror by Stuart Prebble – review 2012-10-12T07:00:02Z Mae Scanlan’s honorable-mention parody set to “Young at Heart” has the single best line in the contest: “He is cunningly shrewd, and he’s stunningly crude”; it refers to . . . you have one guess. Style Invitational: It’s easy as 1-B-iii 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It is a bitingly shrewd insight into Lewis’s own beginnings. Jerry Lewis: a knockabout clown with a dark and melancholy inner life | Peter Bradshaw 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z He walks with his hands plunged deep in his pockets, and when he listens, he is assessing and shrewd, suggesting a confidence and insight beyond his 32 years. Comedian John Mulaney is the throwback kid 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z What’s striking about “Big Sur” is its determined strength of melody, along with its shrewd marshaling of resources. Critic’s Notebook: California Dreaming Adds Sweep to Bill Frisell’s ‘Big Sur’ 2013-06-23T21:08:56Z The first woman to rule the French kingdom, she was shrewd and sometimes ruthless, arranging political alliances and warding off threats to the monarchy. Medieval city on the sea is a repository of French history — and unexpected U.S. connections 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Donald Trump has made a shrewd estimate of the distaste, in a part of the Republican base, for virtue or high-mindedness or public spiritedness of any sort—what he dismisses as “political correctness.” The Three Faces of Trump 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Beneath remarkably heavy brows, her eyes were shrewd and weary, as with the knowledge of countless unravelled mysteries. Buying books is fun, with a glass in your hand 2010-10-01T23:08:00Z Whatever happens to the broader economy, there will always be super-wealthy individuals who look at the art world either as a passionate collector or a shrewd investor or both. 2010-02-04T16:46:00Z Parr, twice widowed before Henry married her, was a Reformation humanist intellectual, shrewd and self-contained where Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard had been headstrong. Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle – review 2013-04-06T10:00:01Z Within the multi-layered conversations and one-sided telephone calls is a deeply funny, shrewd novel, coloured by the palpable anger Gaddis felt over the seeming indifference with which his first novel, The Recognitions, was met. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z But it was a very shrewd adaptation to a problem that existed, not something premeditated.” Banksy Puzzles With ?Exit Through the Gift Shop? 2010-04-13T22:55:00Z Through a combination of shrewd choices, dumb luck and network intervention, Mr. Franklin’s brainchild grew up somewhat different. ‘Full House’ Is Back. Why? 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Lee employed what could be seen as either verities or convenient clichés about Koreans — stubbornness, passion, capacity for hard work, shrewd business instincts — in the service of a substantial melodrama. ‘Pachinko’ Review: K-Drama, American-Style 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z On the witness stand, Carroll was brash, funny, self-effacing and shrewd. Perspective | The refreshing defiance of E. Jean Carroll at the Trump trial 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s reassuring rather than haunting, which is a shrewd and successful commercial compromise, but a compromise all the same. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z During her shrewd rule, Elizabeth has managed to keep the country Protestant and repel the attacks of Roman Catholics. Review | Arthur Phillips shows that choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z "And this shrewd and lively production suggests there may be more than a grain of truth in that remark." What to say about ... Design for Living 2010-09-20T11:47:00Z A gregarious, expansive and shrewd raconteur, he was an unmistakable presence about town, dapper in his tweed jacket, suspenders and porkpie hat, an unapologetic throwback in style and spirit to the beatnik/bebop era. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z But his respect for good lyrics, self-deprecating gags and shrewd use of his sidemen's improv skills make him an artist of genuine class and laconic charm, if not a trailblazer. Curtis Stigers – review 2012-07-01T16:03:01Z Conversely, Broadway frequently attracts star vehicles, jukebox musicals, film adaptations and others that seems to float into existence on a cloud of shrewd marketing and mercantile ambition. The Tony Awards brouhaha is best taken with a shoveful of salt 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z In the New York Times, James Poniewozik wrote that his performance was “sometimes uncomfortable, but not especially daring” while for Variety, Daniel D’Addario called him “more shrewd than funny”. Oscars ceremony will be hostless for second year running 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z But her own work, and Doherty’s shrewd rendering of her circumstances in the 1960s, offer some clues. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Merry’s measured, insightful biography seeks to set the record straight, arguing that McKinley was shrewd and patient, and wily beneath the bland exterior. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z "Promises" is very shrewd in how it perceives local politics. In the shrewd "Promises," Isabelle Huppert is a local politician dealing with truth and perception 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z A colleague from those years later described him as “a tall, shrewd string bean with a deceptively mild appearance and manner.” Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies And a twist at the end, too moving and shrewd to reveal, may require a larger suspension of disbelief. In This Novel, a Mother Risks Everything for a Second Chance 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Aaron is a shrewd detective, and his perceptive observations assist him well. "The Dry" is a desolate, engrossing mystery in which everyone – even Eric Bona – is guilty 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Box is a gripping writer and a shrewd observer of his state's rugged wilderness. Crime fiction: new books by Garry Disher, C.J. Box and Laura Lippman 2011-08-10T22:07:04Z But Kelly is shrewd in plenty of other ways. NBC’s Firing of Megyn Kelly Is as Cynical as Her Hiring Was 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z It was a shrewd programming ploy to include on the same bill Balanchine’s 1956 “Divertimento No. 15” and his 1970 “Who Cares?” L.A. Ballet's ambitious all-Balanchine program leads to missteps, but also one big triumph 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In the context of Quaytman’s exhibition, her individual easel paintings are like quirky but shrewd bits of considered information that come together as a conceptual footing for the mural. R.H. Quaytman makes paintings as sculptures, mysterious and seductive at their best 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z His letters mix a shrewd sense of the high-end auction business with tremendous contempt for it. The Wanderer 2011-02-25T17:39:26Z He approaches the quandaries of capitalism with a shrewd eye for detail. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Betsy’s shrewd management of her husband’s career shaped his popularity and financial success. New Life for the Wyeth Legacy Five Miles Out to Sea 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Nora wrote about herself but she was shrewd and funny about the world. Nora Ephron’s Hollywood Ending 2012-06-27T22:28:16Z “Atlanta’s” frequent references to Internet lore reflect a shrewd understanding of how the show’s audience interacts with the medium. Perspective | How ‘Atlanta’ tapped into social media to create an all-encompassing viewer experience 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z As the novel progresses, Murray’s scrutiny of Casement’s dilemmas of identity grows evermore shrewd. ‘ Gentlemen’: a superb novel about Irish patriot Roger Casement 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z He was a shrewd and very funny man. An Appraisal: The Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z The Murdochs are notoriously private and opaque but inhumanely shrewd, which challenges a filmmaker to build their plot from many angles, resulting in an impressively choreographed journalistic effort. Is CNN's "Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?" a matter worth pondering right now? 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z A proud Hoosier born into a wealthy family in 1869, Tarkington was a shrewd but sympathetic observer of provincial American mores and politics. Booth Tarkington's Midwest captured in Taproot show 2011-12-15T21:00:12Z Hogan’s case seems preposterously thin, until a shrewd bit of legal wrangling puts Gawker’s fortunes in genuine danger. Review | In ‘Nobody Speak,’ the free press, not just a website, faces a grave challenge 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Robert O’Hara’s update of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” made shrewd sense of the Tyrone family’s implosion: Lockdown! Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z An alert data hoarder, a shrewd analyst, and a propulsive stylist, Davis views the hot-air balloon called the art world in a broad political context. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The shrewd reader will regard the final betrothal of Emma and Mr Knightley as inevitable, from the moment we know that he is the only person ever to find fault with her. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Brown left a successful career in property for this, and it seems he made a shrewd investment. Cooking with cannabis: ‘I have a fish guy, a meat guy and a weed guy’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Michael has no access to the deeper logic directing his steps, and the book is shrewder than most at conjuring his seemingly unauthored confusion. In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z His chapters on the making of three films in particular — “The Graduate,” “Silkwood” and “Angels in America” — are miraculous: shrewd, tight, intimate and funny. ‘Mike Nichols’ Captures a Star-Studded Life That Shuttled Between Broadway and Hollywood 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The first thing that Ms. French does so well in “Faithful Place” is to inhabit fully a scrappy, shrewd, privately heartbroken middle-aged man. Books Of the Times: Tana French?s Thriller ?Faithful Place? 2010-07-11T21:25:00Z Bamboozled’s shrewd commentary on the lack of behind-the-scenes diversity in mainstream entertainment is also especially relevant today. Bamboozled: Spike Lee's masterpiece on race in America is as relevant as ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Smart, thoughtful and a shrewd fashioner of his own image as a food and cultural authority, he keeps his rebellion within firm limits. Review: ‘Huang’s World’ Mixes Food, Travel and Attitude 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z It's set in Elizabethan times, Rowan Atkinson is shrewd and scheming and Baldrick is an idiot. Sherlock Holmes's smarter brothers: the best pilots that never made it to air 2010-05-28T15:31:00Z In the end, her Goldsmith is not just a “good-natured” man but also a profound critic of British colonialism and rather a shrewd literary operator as well. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z He also had a pretty shrewd idea of how everyone else was going to view him. Why David Hare Loves Oscar Wilde 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z But the film, relentless in its honesty and shrewd in its insights and techniques, is unlikely to soothe the wounded pride of the actual or aspiring ruling class. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z In a more-is-more epiphany a shrewd producer on the show suggested they combine forces, and their full-throated renditions of modern classics were hits. Il Volo, the Teenage Italian Singers, Go on Tour 2011-10-02T02:30:07Z Kunzru’s work as a journalist, including two recent and indispensable essays in The New York Review of Books on the web-fueled rise of contemporary autocracy, shows he’s a shrewd and unsparing observer of recent politics. Afraid of a Lurking Evil, a Writer Goes Down the Rabbit Hole 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z “Ian was the shrewdest. The most calculating. The quickest to respond to a new situation and turn it to his advantage.” Tracy Chevalier’s ‘New Boy’ illuminates the peculiar trials of our era 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “They are shrewd. It is no different than the world of politics.” Dede Wilsey Is the Defiant Socialite 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Lester, she adds, was an obvious first choice to play a shrewd diplomatic go-between. Josie Rourke: 'I was fighting to put a period in a period movie' 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z As a diagnostician, at least, Ms. Hoffman — a memoirist, novelist and former editor at The New York Times, now in her 70s — is shrewd. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z HBO's domestic drama Big Little Lies has the imprimatur of two major movie stars, a classy pedigree and above all shrewd insights about the ways in which society pits women against one another. The 5 Biggest Surprises of the 2017 Emmy Nominations 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z But, despite my inability to appreciate what she'd given me, she never ceased to offer me generous, shrewd and practical advice. Maeve Binchy, we'll miss you 2012-07-31T17:00:04Z Bale, thickening and graying before our eyes, burrows into the personality of a shrewd operator endowed with whatever the opposite of charisma might be. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z But as directed by Eleanor Rhode, and acted by a vigorous cast of seven, it is also a shrewd and poignant study of how rote work defines those who perform it. Review: ‘Toast’ Blends Farce With Kitchen-Sink Realism 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The Doctor's Dilemma is a far better drama – wittier, shrewder, more pacey – in the theatre than is apparent from a reading. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z A series of shrewd talking points for Democrats trying to hold on to the White House and battling for control of Congress in the midst of a sour economy and growing voter discontent. Books of The Times: ?Back to Work? Has Bill Clinton?s Ideas for America - Review 2011-11-07T19:14:59Z With a shrewd, pared-down and epigrammatic prose style, he has written “a quietly brilliant book that warms slowly in the hands.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Three years ago, he directed and starred in his first feature, “The Dirties,” a shrewd commentary on the warped relationship between image and reality. Review: ‘Operation Avalanche,’ a Tale of Film Nerds on a Kubrick Caper 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The Legacy Project is pretty shrewd stuff, using a mostly nonpolitical appeal to advance political principles. They’re trying to deify Ronald Reagan: Inside the right-wing plot to turn the Gipper into a modern-day God 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Moreover, he is uniquely attuned to the art of deception, something that served him well in his dealings with shrewd collectors. Ricky Jay's obsession with Matthias Buchinger, an unbelievable 17th century showman 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z He remains shrewd about laying economic foundations for the lasting change he seeks. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Every one of his 19 galleries in seven countries bears the stamp of his shrewd taste in art, his spare, elegant aesthetic. Without Heirs, Larry Gagosian Finally Plans for Succession 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z He is cunningly shrewd, and he’s stunningly crude; A strange sort of dude who with gall is imbued, And people are astounded at the clips and blips That emanate from Mr. Trump’s protruding lips. Style Invitational: It’s easy as 1-B-iii 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille — seemed to rise through shrewd business acumen, false confidence and good luck. James Wong Howe: A Gutsy Cinematographer Finally Gets His Due 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z A big man for his day, and given vainly to wearing black periwigs, Brown also was a shrewd businessman. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z But Mr. Tatsumi was a shrewd observer of his national culture. Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese Cartoonist of Dark Stories, Is Dead at 79 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z That evening I had dinner with Declan Kiely, Keeper of Manuscripts at the Morgan Library, both a good friend and a shrewd judge of things. A ?6,000 Auden bargain 2010-07-16T14:34:00Z Although wrapped in slapstick and sweetened with romance, Bridesmaids is at its core a shrewd examination of female insecurity. Bridesmaids: Kristin Wiig's Merry Band of Party Poopers 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z Cyrus is serious and polite and peppers his conversation with a mixture of backwoods mysticism, shrewd observations on the entertainment industry and Dale Carnegie-esque inspirational sayings. Billy Ray Cyrus is back. But he never really went away. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The shrewd handling of Mozart’s overture propels an audience headlong into Isango’s aesthetic. South Africa’s Isango Ensemble beautifully remolds ‘The Magic Flute’ The New York Times critic Vincent Canby called it “a terrifically shrewd piece of movie-making,” noting that “if ‘Car Wash’ makes no comment on our pop culture, it’s because it’s a piece of it.” ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And they could stand in for all the shrewd, magnetic, unhinged work she’s done. I Love Gwyneth Paltrow. There. I Said It. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But the shrewdest insight I found in my preparations came from Elijah Wald, author of “Riding With Strangers/A Hitchhiker’s Journey,” and a lifelong, global hitchhiker. Tales of a 60-year-old hitchhiker 2013-02-27T01:00:00Z The introduction of that shrewd cockney character in the fourth installment turns “The Pickwick Papers” from a commercial disappointment into an unprecedented success. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Silkworks is a shrewd reflection on teenage experience from playwright Fin Kennedy and the girls of Mulberry School. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-07-16T17:14:00Z Ms. Colman also won the best actress award and critical praise for her role in the film, which was declared an “entertaining, mischievous, shrewd and archly feminist portrait of intrigue” by Screen Daily. Alfonso Cuarón Wins Best Film in Venice for ‘ROMA’ 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Ms. James, a former writer of fan fiction who is nothing if not shrewd, has managed to outshine the many authors who write similar, better or crazier material than her own. Review: E. L. James’s ‘Grey’ Goes Inside His Brain, and, Yes, His Pants 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Among the shrewd manifestations of struggle in the music — a specialty of Mr. Adjuah’s, maybe even the essence of his brand — there was an intriguing new one, a tug-of-war between clarity and turbidity. Music Review: Christian aTunde Adjuah Brings New Sound to a Jazz Festival 2014-05-09T21:40:13Z Hamalainen’s is the first complete account of the Lakotas, the tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse that long dominated the American interior and thwarted Western expansion with charm, shrewd diplomacy and sheer might. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “Uncut Gems” is merciless, but it is a shrewd character study. “Uncut Gems” is a merciless, nail-biting crime thriller that lets Adam Sandler shine 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “The Boys” is especially shrewd on this dilemma, explicitly satirizing toxic fandoms. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s been nearly 60 years since a shrewd flying squirrel and a bumbling moose first appeared on television to foil the sinister plots of the stereotypical Cold War villains Boris and Natasha. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Undercover Boss: Celebrity Edition’ and ‘Evil Genius’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Here, as before, she is the shrewd and savvy outsider — a ditzy-seeming sorority girl in fact possessed of steel — who ends up making an indelible mark at Harvard Law School. Elle Woods Returns to London in a Revamped ‘Legally Blonde’ 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Set at a "trash or treasure" event at a south London auction house, it follows the gimlet-eyed auction attendees seeking to make a fast buck through shrewd bidding. Catch-up TV guide: from Top Boy to Run 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z Of course, this holier-than-thou lecturing at audience members was hardly the shrewd commentary McCain intended for it to be. Meghan McCain’s legacy at “The View” exposes real-life problems with across-the-aisle "friendships" 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Divided into the four seasons but moving through many years, this strangely shrewd and tender story follows Sammie and Samson as they both mature and continue negotiating with each other. Review | Kristen Arnett’s ‘With Teeth’ gives voice to a parent’s darkest thoughts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Ford is a playwright of dichotomies, somehow both restrained and outrageous, shrewd and shocking. John Ford?s ?Broken Heart? and ? ?Tis Pity She?s a Whore? 2012-01-27T18:00:00Z From the opening aerial shots of a thoroughly denatured agricultural landscape and the lethal confrontation that follows, we know we are in the presence of a masterly visual tactician and a shrewd storyteller. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z They were a formidable combination, the ultimate ruthless mogul and the shrewd creative brain who provided the model for Monroe Stahr in Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, the greatest novel about Hollywood's golden age. MGM gets sucked into a black hole of debt 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z The array of Wilco side projects suggested a study of its component parts: some hazy melody, some shrewd improvisation, a lot of careful texture. Music: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Build a Festival at Mass MoCA 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z Easton later became one of pop's most minted stars thanks to shrewd Florida property deals. Unlikely pop duos 2013-06-15T18:00:00Z “Petrichor,” set to a string quartet by Villa-Lobos, is attractively shrewd problem-solving on Mr. Morris’s part, the problem being that the score has no sustained dance impulse. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z The title comes from Maylis’s shrewd observation about whom Gabriel intends to cast — and why. ‘The Worst Ones’ Review: The Gazes of Children 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Karabits' programming consistently proves his fine musicianship but also his shrewd, scholarly, instinct for bringing less familiar repertoire to the platform. BSO/Karabits – review 2012-11-30T17:56:34Z "I'd suspected for a long time that dogs are cleverer than human beings . . . dogs are extraordinarily shrewd, and notice everything, every step you take." It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z “Bust Out” really gets into the finer points of how Tony and his crew see themselves: as shrewd operators, delivering righteous punishment and life lessons to folks who’ve crossed the wrong line. ‘The Sopranos’ 20th Anniversary: Here’s Your Complete Guide to Rewatching It 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z In “Sutton” Mr. Moehringer reminds us that he was a shrewd fellow and a committed reader, with copies of Dante and Tennyson tucked into his prison cell. Books of The Times: ‘Sutton,’ by J. R. Moehringer, a Fictional Biography 2012-10-09T12:00:00Z Creative Sheik Wants to Stock Desert With Fish The director Lasse Hallstrom is a shrewd commercial alchemist with a soft heart. Movie Review: ?Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,? With Ewan McGregor 2012-03-08T23:10:43Z Her enthusiasm could come across as naïve if not for the shrewd intelligence, decades of hard work and ample proof-of-concept backing it up. In ‘With Love,’ Gloria Calderón Kellett Comes Home for the Holidays 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Tess was underestimated and oversexualized, a girl smart enough to spot a brilliant opportunity – and shrewd enough to know that skill alone wouldn’t be enough. Working Girl at 30: the workplace comedy that changed the game 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z There are shrewd portraits of not just Kerouac and Ginsberg but people like Robert Frank and Hettie Jones. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z A shrewd film star is both a work of art and its curator. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z But “Fargo,” FX’s adaptation of the great film by the Coen brothers, created and written by Noah Hawley, left me feeling a thousand miles away, despite its strong cast and shrewd beauty. Emily Nussbaum: The Minnesota Noir of “Fargo” 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z She understands the world she lives in and is shrewd as she fends for herself and Hearn. Interpreting the Interpreter: Who Was Lafcadio Hearn? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Not only that, in a shrewd nod to the way the actor's detractors see him, Cruise seems to enjoy the chance to play Cage as shallow, callow, self-interested and manipulative. 'Edge of Tomorrow,' Tom Cruise run loops around competition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “Let us say, if he was interested in a particular actress, Alma was very shrewd about what was good for the picture,” Mr. Lloyd said. ‘Hitchcock’ and ‘The Girl’ Remember Alma Reville 2012-11-18T04:13:01Z It is also effective enough to fool everyone at the hotel, a humming establishment run by Mrs. Baker, a shrewd and pretentious lady played with cooing, squawking relish by Pauline Collins. | 'Albert Nobbs': ?Albert Nobbs? ? Movie Review 2011-12-20T16:46:28Z Some of it is somebody who’s shrewd—it’s usually the wives who turn out to be the shrewd ones in the book, which is probably true in real life. Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All” 2012-08-01T17:59:13Z Which shrewd and knavish sprites devised the Faerie Kebabs, each one a toothpick jammed into an olive, a mushroom and a dried apricot? At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z And if Crockett had a shrewd side, so did the businessman in Mr. Parker, who understood the character’s continuing marketing power long after the ’50s craze had become a memory. Fess Parker, Who as Davy Crockett Set Off Coonskin Cap Craze, Dies at 85 2010-03-19T04:38:00Z He said he tried not to judge Jobs, the shrewd salesman to Wozniak's technical genius, over pocketing the lion's share of profits. Steve Jobs depicted with 'love and respect', say new film's co-stars 2013-01-31T21:07:16Z We suspect Knut's willingness to hand over his wife to his friend may be shrewd tactics or a way of getting inside Axel's castle. Playing with Fire – review 2013-06-04T17:49:06Z These shrewd juxtapositions save the collection from feeling jumbled or disorienting, as do the book’s elegant design and its succinct yet informative captions. From Nudes to the Nervous System, Studies of the Human Body 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z CI: It’s very shrewd, or would be if it wasn’t so obvious. Live-Blogging the Tony Awards 2010-06-13T23:58:00Z I think Jimmy Fallon, who’s been the dominant guy for a year and a half or so, has been very shrewd in how he’s loaded up his show to thwart what momentum Colbert has. “If any network had a chance to put Tina Fey in that job, they’d throw every man overboard”: Bill Carter surveys the late-night landscape 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z That fact seems to have nothing to do with the book until Mr. Grisham makes shrewd use of race later on. Books of The Times: ‘The Racketeer,’ by John Grisham 2012-10-17T21:59:00Z He is a good story-teller, a shrewd appraiser of character and a keen recorder of an indecisive generation. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Certainly it’s insulting to comedy lovers and to the character, a shrewd number sold out by her director for an unfunny gag about the unruly female body. Film: Un-Innocents Abroad: The Drubbing 2010-06-02T22:04:00Z A diminutive man — he was 5-foot-5 — with a shrewd business sense, the elder Mr. Nederlander was known for a tough-minded resistance to the demands of actors, producers and unions, and for an acerbic wit. James Nederlander, Theater Owner Known as Broadway’s Last Patriarch, Dies at 94 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Some shrewd, pragmatic packing also helped make the trip manageable. Rejected: One man’s endless search for a media internship 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd. Sometimes you need that to succeed in this business. That’s the trade-off.” It’s O.K. With Ralph Macchio if You Call Him the Karate Kid 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z But China has changed and so, we come to see in this shrewd, timely and razor-sharp comedy premiering at the Goodman Theatre and logically headed to Broadway, has Hwang. Four stars for Goodman's 'Chinglish' 2011-06-27T20:36:00Z His homespun but shrewd colloquial voice drives the narrative of “Little Big Man.” Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z More modest and more technical than his big hits – Awakenings or The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat – the book is still remarkable in its shrewd perceptions and breadth of reference. My hero: Oliver Sacks by Hilary Mantel 2013-02-08T13:31:01Z As in “Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore,” this aching new video gains its power through shrewd editing and a lightly worn nostalgia. Mark Leckey Captures the Exuberance of Pre-‘Brexit’ Britain 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Sigrid Gilmer’s shrewd and mischievous action-adventure comedy, presented by the Habitat at the Robert Moss Theater, is more concerned with the spectacular grit of the black women in its orbit. Review: ‘Harry and the Thief,’ a Trip Back to the Plantation 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z She now plays a somewhat wider range of characters — shrewd blondes, guileless brunettes — and she struggles less. In ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Annaleigh Ashford Puts It All Together 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z But her iTunes surprise was also a shrewd way avoid leaks and attract attention. Beyoncé's Permanent Stealth Campaign for Flawless Commercial Success 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z A shrewd, affectless real estate broker in Orlando, Florida, Rick puffs on e-cigarettes and carries a gun as he goes about his work forcing people out of their foreclosed homes. “Trump is kind of scary. I get the feeling he might actually pull it off”: Michael Shannon on “99 Homes,” the economic collapse and the eroding American Dream 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z He remained a tough, shrewd, hugely intelligent critic whose authority just grew and grew. Roger Ebert: stimulating, authoritative critic with formidable internet presence 2013-04-05T09:15:32Z And such a shrewd and responsive marketing achievement should be celebrated or a least grudgingly admired — but not twisted into a false notion of victimhood. Perspective | Was ‘Unplanned’ a victim of media bias or an example of grievance-as-marketing? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z In most productions, the particular conflict is left ambiguous; here Montana Levi Blanco’s shrewd costumes intimate that this is the Civil War. ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: A Party for the End of the World 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z In effect Miss Cooper is Molly, grown older and shrewder but no less pure of heart and purpose. DVD: New DVDs, Mary Pickford on Blu-ray, Early Perry Mason 2012-11-18T01:53:01Z That is a shrewd decision, and counters accusations that the programme has become too sensational under editor Vanessa Whitburn's stewardship. The Archers: Ambridge does disaster 2011-01-02T21:01:28Z I particularly admire the book’s shrewd narrative approach: The street is used to recount much of the history of New York, a strategy that could be adapted to Broadway and positively to 4th Street. The Street Where ‘They Do Strange Things’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Of course Ms. Swift was always shrewder than she insisted. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z Next morning, he paid shrewd tribute to Wolfgang: "He tried to see the world as his grandfather saw it and not as the world saw his grandfather." Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z He fixes everyone with a chillingly shrewd, malevolent stare made even more disquieting by an unsettling Parkinson's disease tremor — an inspired touch. Django Unchained – first look review 2012-12-12T13:06:56Z He was considered the shrewdest rock ’n’ roll booking agent in the world in the 1960s and the most dominant one in the decades after. Frank Barsalona, Rock ’n’ Roll Concert Promoter, Dies at 74 2012-11-29T16:24:46Z One of its incidental pleasures is the appearance of the British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays a tough, shrewd CIA agent. Why isn't Salt star Chiwetel Ejiofor up there with Russell Crowe? 2010-08-19T12:13:00Z Cultivating a gay fanbase can be a shrewd career move for a straight performer: just ask Kylie, or Taylor Swift. Is Hollywood still in love with the suffering ‘gay icon’? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Christie's psychological insight is profound, and is present in the formal structures of her novels as much as it is in Poirot's or Miss Marple's shrewd one-line analyses of motives for murder. My hero: Agatha Christie by Sophie Hannah 2013-02-15T18:00:01Z In what seems a shrewd move, he visits a law firm where one partner, Jack, is white and another, Henry, is black. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z This shrewd and silly play dares to propose that the greatest pleasure of all lies in breaking such chains. London Theater Journal: Getting Giddy 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “At a straight, cold, political level,” Garrett added, the timing of the rally “is very shrewd for him.” The rise and fall — or maybe rebirth? — of the White House correspondents’ dinner 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But Andrews was also shrewd enough to keep key Chekhov images. Best theatre of 2012, No 3: Three Sisters, Young Vic 2012-12-19T17:40:41Z To some degree autobiographical — the heroine, like her creator, lives in Sacramento — the movie is sharp, shrewd, funny and impeccably cast. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Reid is known as a shrewd tactician, a killer who speaks softly but carries a sharp knife. ‘I hate palm trees’: The sentimental journey of Harry Reid 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Kazin’s shrewd, absorbing volume looks at the 200-year history of the “oldest mass party in the world,” which has seen its political apparatus become a shadow of what it was in the Democrats’ 20th-century heyday. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Ellison is based, partly, on any number of shrewd, godlike, New York men Crudup has come across, for whom navigating power structures has become a sport, or a thrilling pastime. Billy Crudup: ‘Life is hard. It’s filled with grief, confusion, unpredictability … ' 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Presenting her suite titled “Recognition,” she read an account of Queen Nzinga, a shrewd Southern African monarch who governed in the early years of colonialism. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z And he probably was the shrewdest, most talented operator to emerge from the post-punk/New Romantic scene. Acceptable in 80s 2010-05-14T15:14:00Z The Sacklers themselves were shrewd — insisting all along that they had no idea that an alarming number of Americans were getting addicted to their product, even if their own sales data reflected what was happening. In ‘Empire of Pain,’ the American Dynasty Behind OxyContin 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z This wasn’t progressive; it was evidence of a shrewd embrace of old-studio-style product diversification. Harvey Weinstein Is Gone. But Hollywood Still Has a Problem. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Still, an element of shrewd foresight in the treaties that Native Americans signed over the years made eradicating their cultures more difficult. Louise Erdrich on Her New Novel, ‘LaRose,’ and the Psychic Territory of Native Americans 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z As ever, the writers side with the shrewd and dispassionate, punishing those characters foolish enough to exude a little warmth. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z These are interesting enough and, like other elements of the book, call into question just how shrewd a reporter he was. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z She was a hustler, and, as Jasia Reichardt commented in her shrewd but feeling review of the Whitechapel show, her career was marked by a mixture of "perseverance, blundering, despair, hope and frustration". Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z In shrewder hands, this could read as a critique of the tourist-board shilling of certain movies. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Only her intelligence – a novelist's intelligence, with a shrewd eye for vanity, and an understanding that everything is informed by compromise – keeps her tale from losing its grounding in reality. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z In fact she was a the right shrewd business woman for the right time...when the video music entertainment reached its peak. Madonna and Hillary: ‘Witch’ and ‘Nasty Woman’ as Sisters in Arms 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Simon was a shrewd collector, known for consulting experts far and wide but ultimately making up his own mind about potential acquisitions — and then making complicated deals. Norton Simon: A look at the art purchase that transformed the collector 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Butler’s philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic. New & Noteworthy, From Paul Krugman to the Romantic Age 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z How does one become so fabulous, shrewd and self-possessed? Review: Megyn Kelly Tells Tales Out of Fox News in Her Memoir, ‘Settle for More’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Lewis is shrewd enough to begin this long poem with the text of an actual invitation. Review: In Robin Coste Lewis’s ‘Voyage of the Sable Venus,’ Poems on Race 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Andersen staged all three ballets himself, often making fascinatingly shrewd choices of textual options ignored today by most other Balanchine regisseurs. Dance Review: Ib Andersen Takes Balanchine?s Spirit to Ballet Arizona 2010-06-13T21:16:00Z Oh, she is warm, accessible; she is also shrewd, worldly, changeable, a subtle comic, and something of a freak, a beautiful freak.” Karen Black, Versatile Character Actress, Dies at 74 2013-08-09T00:10:51Z Very shrewd: A new TV series and a new book arriving in sync — “or, as they say in the Old West, sime-yu-tay-nee-ussly,” McHale drawls with a look of satisfaction. Joel McHale aims to improve you with his new book and sitcom 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z But fine-tuning is still needed, Ms. Shim added, and Seoul Auction is pitching to increasingly shrewd collectors who are not necessarily swayed by headline names. Special Report: Contemporary Art: On the Block in Hong Kong, a Modern Mix of East and West 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z There are also some shrewd and witty touches, and one terrifically creepy performance from , who steals the film with the chilling, parasitic relentlessness of that first gut-bound alien. Prometheus 2012-05-30T14:12:53Z Her self — remorseless, generous, imaginative and shrewd — is everywhere. Art Review: ?Cindy Sherman? at Museum of Modern Art 2012-02-23T23:32:21Z But Fox's fine understanding of technical innovation is always combined with a shrewd awareness of financial and political manoeuvring. The Arts of Industry in the Age of?Enlightenment by Celina Fox | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z Smith prints two shrewd pieces about Jordan Peele, one before and one after his success as the director of the indie horror movie “Get Out.” Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Even if diluted, this production makes some shrewd psychological points; and its greatest revelation is that Robespierre is a tragic figure. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z To thread the different time periods, Simon employs a fictionalized hotel staff, and his solution to continuing these characters into the 2008 epilogue is shrewd and elegant. L.A.'s Central Avenue heyday evoked with panache in 'Dunbar Hotel' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z And with some shrewd tweaking, it returns in early February for a singing, dancing second season. NBC's Greenblatt rebuilds network long in disarray 2013-01-04T14:02:13Z The good news is that Knight is shrewd and perceptive, and his book is as good as his article. ‘The Premonitions Bureau’ Recounts Crowdsourcing the Supernatural 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z She is shrewd on Michael Jackson’s breathy public voice and his more commanding private one. Books of The Times: Lisa Robinson’s Rock ’n’ Roll Life in ‘There Goes Gravity’ 2014-04-29T20:48:45Z Mike, a shrewd judge of character, just laughs. 'Better Call Saul' recap: Light shed on Mike's troubled past 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z She was a shrewd, intelligent, intuitive acting presence in her later years and a much-married icon whose private life triggered the beginnings of today's celebrity industry. Elizabeth Taylor: born to be Cleopatra 2011-03-23T19:59:58Z He is the reliable narrator — philosophical but shrewd and often witty to a fault. Ned Beauman's 'Glow' puts an unconventional spin on a thriller plot 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z In the nine stories, Morris, an entertainment lawyer by trade, offers up shrewd, bitingly funny commentary on his own privileged class. Listen to Matthew McConaughey Read a Short Story 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z If Ms. Bennett’s choices don’t all add up, some are shrewd. | 'Henry V': A Kingdom for a Stage, Princes to Act ...and Maybe a Better Hall? 2011-08-17T21:51:54Z They did what most shrewd cutters do, which is to calculate the nuisance value of a lobby against the cost of buying it off. As they bow to London's arts mafiosi, the Tories still handcuff the provinces 2010-10-21T19:02:00Z Throughout "The Last of Us," the girl serves as a shrewd accomplice who guides Joel through abandoned buildings, gathers supplies and assists him in thwarting enemies. 'Last of Us' video game undeterred by violence 2013-02-04T13:58:08Z But Mr. Fletcher’s shrewd, laconic performance suggests that Patrick doesn’t have that much faith in the solidity of material structures. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z The production, directed and adapted by Emma Rice, is a Valentine's Day present for theatergoers who are at once too shrewd not to laugh at love and too wise to treat it as a joke. Kneehigh's 'Tristan & Yseult' an alluring blend of myth, music 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Noble's solo combined his characteristically shrewd phrasing with a dissonant, Thelonious Monkish clang. Zhenya Strigalev – review 2012-06-15T17:40:01Z As GQ’s Tom Carson put it in 2007, “He’s shrewd, he’s virile, he’s merry, and the camera loves him with the devotion of a headwaiter rushing over to light a billionaire’s cigar.” How George Clooney and Julia Roberts Quietly Became the Tracy-Hepburn of Our Time 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z It wasn’t a bad movie, but I’ve a shrewd idea that it will be totally eclipsed by the book. ‘The Director,’ by David Ignatius A shrewd decision as it turned out, but what if the suits had been more trigger–happy? Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z It also relieves us from having to think too hard about something that mattered a great deal to the shrewd Rossini: compensating artists fairly for their work. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z With shrewd empathy and a Geiger counter ear for dialogue, Beattie sounds the grace notes — and the fall-from-grace notes — of her characters’ lives. Ann Beattie is one of our few contemporary masters of storytelling 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The foulmouthed, prolific, shrewd California hip-hop collective Odd Future played seven gigs during the South by Southwest music festival at the group’s peak Internet notoriety and lived up to it as performance artists. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z He got a rousing response from an eagerly voting young Muslim woman, and a shrewd set of opinions from a prison officer. Counted? 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z I wasn’t entirely impervious to its nostalgic charms: I was dazzled by its sensuous, sun-kissed lyricism, as well as Brad Pitt’s languorous, deceptively shrewd portrayal of an easygoing stunt man feeling his years. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Winfrey was an obvious choice as a first guest, but not a shrewd one. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: A Timid Beginning 2011-01-18T12:08:34Z The clothing is a sleek take on 17th-century lines, and how shrewd is it that the pale blue walls of Orgon’s house match the colors worn by Tartuffe and his takeover entourage? Taking on a fanatic with zeal in Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z With the aid of his loyal secretary and his private eye, the famed attorney invariably wrecked the prosecution's case with shrewd cross-examination, sometimes eliciting courtroom confessions by the real culprit. Actress Barbara Hale, loyal secretary on TV's 'Perry Mason,' dies at 94 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z This behind-the-scenes look at how Supreme Court nominations became so partisan, by a New York Times journalist, is “entertaining and shrewd,” wrote our reviewer, Evan Thomas. New in Paperback: ‘The Nickel Boys’ and ‘Confirmation Bias’ 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z But perhaps even more importantly, she would be shrewd to begin seeking out ways to grow her demography. Ariana Grande and the Beatles have even more in common than sales records 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Her shrewd and unimpressed sense of the world has, it seems, survived. Jeanne Moreau: the intelligent, complex star who lit up the French New Wave 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Pound was a great impresario, and this was among his first and shrewdest stunts. When Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats Ate a Peacock 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The shrewd Beatrice can see he has displaced his lust for Catherine by turning on the girl's boyfriend, the illegal immigrant Rodolpho, but Eddie is a creature without self-reflection and has no such insight. A View from the Bridge - review 2011-01-17T21:30:00Z Arguably it was the shrewdest strategy for a young American in the 1950s to adopt. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z The album’s overall sound favors sleek contour and shrewd repetition, with every part serving a purpose. New Albums From Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Sleaford Mods and Owen Pallett 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Wood chatted with Salon about the film, a shrewd portrait of celebrity worship, poetry, drinking and other vices. Elijah Wood’s guide to clean living: “The sensual things in life are what I’m attracted to” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It is quieter, more compact and less thematically ambitious than those — an intriguing minor composition by a shrewd and skillful master of the art. ‘Gebo and the Shadow,’ Directed by Manoel de Oliveira 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s rather brave of Mesa and the cast, and also shrewd, to perform in such ultra-close quarters. Review | ‘She Rode Horses’ gallops through the housing collapse 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The life experience of Acker’s Washingtonian women is broad: teachers, T.S.A. employees, college applicants, the young and the elderly — but they all share a shrewd understanding of the narrow perceptions they face as black women. Debut Story Collections Full of Vulnerable People and Their Pain 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z This artsy extravagance is not just whimsy: C2’s design expresses both a shrewd rebranding of business as art and an almost messianic faith in creativity as a magical cure for countless commercial and social problems. Ball pits, buskers and ‘ninja gardeners’: This business conference is a circus. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z “Breaking Away” and “Eyewitness” were both written by Steve Tesich, a Yugoslavian immigrant with whom Mr. Yates shared a shrewd appreciation of details that perhaps only foreigners might determine were peculiarly American. Peter Yates, Filmmaker, Is Dead at 81 2011-01-11T07:09:43Z His protagonists are smart, street smart, shrewd, skillful or some combination of those qualities as a rule. Not the Brightest Killer of the Flower Moon 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z With Maggie, the poor but shrewd debutante who has married into money, Ms. Miller at last has a stage role she was born for, and she owns it unconditionally. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z As one shrewd adventurer asks, “Does the place exist?” ‘Donogoo,’ a 1930 Farce About a Financial Scheme 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z It was a shrewd move to squeeze the action into a long strip with the audience in wooden pews on either side. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z The past decade in pop music has been marked by Swift’s shrewd, thrilling songwriting, her chirpy and intimate sound. The Book on Taylor Swift 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z This is a deceptively shrewd political answer — pulled pork is a foundation of Southern barbecue, which crosses racial and urban/rural divides, but it also suggests a love of carnitas and Chinese shredded pork dishes. A number of Democrats running for president are kind of weird about food 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Animal Kingdom does everything else well enough, and uses her shrewd, assessing eyes and unmannered delivery perfectly. Review: On 'Animal Kingdom,' Ellen Barkin Gives Summer TV's Best Performance 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Friedman is marvelous in evoking a rational man being steadily consumed by a cancerous guilt, while Ms. Dunagan’s shrewd performance fully justifies his jagged ambivalence. Review: In ‘The Treasurer,’ a Son Remembers Mama, as She Forgets Everything 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z It is pretty clear that some, if not all, of these folks are up to no good, but Bron's speech about these disruptors who break the system is as shrewd. Cozy up to "Glass Onion," the droll "Knives Out" sequel that delivers all the murder mystery goods 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z About a potential vaccine, we get shrewd snippets of dialogue like this one: “‘Beta version,’ Naila scoffed. ‘The Old Drift’ Is a Dazzling Debut Spanning Four Generations 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s her character’s job to be the rational one, the shrewd warrior who uses logic and calm in the face of nature’s thuggishness. You Won't Actually Be Done With 2016 Until You Watch The Shallows 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z “She was also a shrewd pioneer who opened up a whole new lucrative sector of the health and beauty sector,” Ms. Brown said. Makeup Without the Markup 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Spanning five decades, the pieces vary in length from two to 13 pages, and some of the meatier ones require your full attention in order to follow his shrewd analysis and sometimes abstruse digressions. 'Reading for My Life': a critic's lifelong engagement with literature 2012-05-16T18:47:03Z “Life With Groucho,” published in 1954, captivated readers with its sharp but affectionate portrait of Groucho — who peppered the narrative with kibitzing footnotes — and its shrewd account of the show-business milieu in which he thrived. Arthur Marx, Who Wrote About Groucho, Dies at 89 2011-04-15T01:17:54Z He led shrewd and valorous military actions in France and Italy, and he married a princess, the eldest daughter of Edward III of England, but Enguerrand was not an extraordinary man. Craving more “Game of Thrones”? Read this book now 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z As head of production, he turned Paramount’s reputation around with a string of shrewd projects, which his Midas touch turned into critical and box-office gold. Robert Evans: eloquent and passionate midwife to the Hollywood new wave | Peter Bradshaw 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z But shrewd and wily and perceptive. This is the guy the Son of Sam went to when the murderous schlub didn’t think he was getting his due for his summer-long killing spree. Newspaperman Jimmy Breslin dead at 88. Sláinte. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Their roller coaster story is dramatized with a theatrically shrewd obviousness that delivers the laughs, cheers and tears like clockwork. At the Ahmanson, 'Jersey Boys' puts another quarter in the jukebox 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z He was also a shrewd, daring and innovative businessman. Paul Durand-Ruel, the Paris Dealer Who Put Impressionism on the Map 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z She is shrewd about life's stages: how your views change, how other people's views about you change – you go from being afraid for your children to being almost afraid of them. Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being?Old by Jane Miller 2010-08-29T11:21:00Z Much of Tomlin's comedy is still shrewder, fresher and more true-to-life than that of leading comics half her age. Review: Lily Tomlin plays off a packed house of happy fans at the 5th Avenue 2011-01-31T00:31:02Z The editor’s shrewd suggestion belonged to a specific time and place, too. Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Babitz’s work – read the memoirs first – is shrewd, knowing and sun-drenched. The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Wilkinson plays the shrewd, willful power broker so well and so appealingly, he dominates the series and almost makes the Borgia pope seem humdrum. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z The novel’s third section is told from her viewpoint and the last from that of a shrewd Sherlockian “confidential agent.” The 19th-century best-selling horror novel that isn’t ‘Dracula’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z A shrewd point about forced reconciliations got belabored in a manner that was itself coercive. David Dorfman and Korhan Basaran Troupes at BAM Fisher 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Instead, Schatz posited that each studio’s stable of stars, directors and technicians — guided by shrewd moguls — helped create films with distinct visual styles and storytelling motifs. The studio as auteur: Movie hits and misses this year define the system 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But even when the show’s present-day updates are shrewd, its comic ideas are haphazardly flung about. Review: In ‘ms. estrada,’ Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The ancillary roles demand a shrewd reading of faces, body language and character in order to pull off the little dances of seduction built into the play. ‘Queen of the Night’ Opens at the New Diamond Horseshoe Club 2013-12-26T21:42:17Z There is no pyrotechny in the writing — just compassion and shrewd insight. Colm Toibin's new novel may not be a beauty, but greatness abounds 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Andrew McCarthy, the Brat Pack heartthrob turned travel writer and television director, peppers his second memoir with shrewd slivers of self-deprecation. Review | In ‘Brat,’ Andrew McCarthy looks back at his younger self — a sheepish outsider, torn between ambition and art 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z For all of Russell Hantz’s faults, he is a very shrewd strategist. Jeff Probst Picks His Top 5 Survivor Power Plays 2013-10-09T09:45:32Z Finally, Gneezy said, free samples can make us feel like shrewd consumers. To sample is human. But our beloved lipstick testers and cheese cubes aren’t coming back anytime soon. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z The stakes are rather less vital in “Molly’s Game,” which mostly tracks how a shrewd young woman threw fancy gambling parties for very important and self-important men with exceedingly deep pockets. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z But you could also recognize it as a shrewd recalibration for one of the more stable properties in the music industry, complete with a name-brand producer, his cabinet of wonders and his trusted musical crew. New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z At other moments Hiromi made shrewd use of syncopation and even, fleetingly, silence. 2010-01-30T05:29:00Z Some years before, Texas had passed the nation’s second anti-trust law as a way to push back against northeastern industrial interests — a shrewd, albeit protectionist, thing to do. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Erica Grieder on What America Can Learn From Texas 2013-05-01T14:00:56Z The central role in “Emeralds” extends the shrewd, brilliant Ms. Bouder marvelously. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z But when Baldwin trains his focus Nick and Emily’s story, the novel becomes more frictionless and shrewd, exposing how our emotions tend to defy our attempts to apply tidy narratives to them. Bad news sells in the 'The Last Kid Left' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Ashton, a native Texan who is shrewd but naive at times, loses days of his life drinking vodka on a Russian train snaking through the Siberian wilderness. Russia has its own TV show like ‘The Americans’ — but it’s a comedy set during Trump’s presidency 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The prognosis isn’t good in Michael M. Kaiser’s short, shrewd analysis of U.S. arts organizations. Can arts organizations survive in the current economy? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Good for them for being shrewd enough to know the difference. Jay-Z and Kanye West: Watch the Throne ? track-by-track review 2011-08-02T16:29:41Z “The Traitor,” anchored by Pierfrancesco Favino’s shrewd, subtle and volcanic lead performance, is less an exploration of the man’s motives than a chronicle of his actions. ‘The Traitor’ Review: Turning the Tables on La Cosa Nostra 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z He is a shrewd judge of ideas and talent. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z But, if Brook is deeply attentive to the music, he also champions Schikaneder who, he points out, was no lightweight buffoon, but a shrewd Viennese actor-manager who had once played Hamlet. Peter Brook: and for my next trick ? 2011-03-16T21:31:01Z He added that Mr. Radcliffe was taking nothing for granted, and shrewd choices at this crucial juncture could go a long way toward his professional durability. Now Just a Muggle, With Song and Dance 2011-03-02T22:59:08Z Richard Curtis's heartwarmingly soppy Love Actually had its moments, with a shrewd sense of the dramatic charge in the challenge of simply getting everything ready for Christmas. The Santa supremacy: Peter Bradshaw's top Christmas movies 2010-12-15T21:30:07Z Their spiky banter is Díaz at his best, a shrewd exploration of male mores under often hilarious Ping-Pong dialogue. ‘Oscar Wao’ Review: The Tragedy, and Comedy, of Manhood 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Despite his enduring celebrity, Stravinsky’s protean output and ceaseless, shrewd self-reinventions can be difficult to capture. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z Lewin’s screenplay, a forced amalgam of Greek mythology and Germanic seafaring legend, seems deliriously arbitrary at first but is in fact a shrewd assessment of the appeal of its two leading players. DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z The journalist Karl Dallas described his performances as "a shrewd mixture of musical brilliance and vocal insanity". Diz Disley obituary 2010-04-15T17:43:00Z His one shrewd storytelling choice was to leave the chapter on Ukraine for the end, as incentive for exhausted readers to stay the course. In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His Enemies 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Such high-minded ideals don’t preclude shrewd understanding about life in a police state: “Exaggerated prudence increases danger. People listen most carefully to those who disguise their voices.” Review | A fascinating look inside the journal of a controversial German war hero 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Behind its apparently casual, unstructured surface is a shrewd and compassionate understanding of the adolescent mind at work even as it is at play. 2010-01-11T08:06:00Z On its website, the Rock Hall praised Parton as a “living legend and a paragon of female empowerment,” adding that her “unapologetic femininity belied her shrewd business acumen, an asset in the male-dominated music industry.” Dolly Parton Bows Out of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nomination 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The second force you might be able to co-opt is shrewd attention to what he does — and doesn't — want to hear. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: They stayed away to protect his health, but covid-denier dad sees it differently 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Salter, best known as one of the writers and stars of the Obie-winning two-hander “In the Continuum,” has a shrewd sense of the kinds of roles that actors will enjoy. Nikkole Salter’s ‘Carnaval’ Explores Black Masculinity 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The same, writ even larger, could be said for Kidman, whose shrewd auteurist eye is revealed not just in one movie but through the arc of her career. Nicole Kidman belongs in our pantheon of great actresses 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z He's also one of the most sought-after producers in the music industry and one of its shrewdest business brains. Will.i.am: 'I want to write code!' 2012-12-15T23:00:05Z Solomon has crafted a good novel about the racial and social complexities of American life, observed in shrewd detail. Review | ‘The Days of Afrekete’ is a bitingly funny novel with echoes to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z On the contrary, what is so moving and effective about Roberts’s work here is her shrewd subversion of her long-established persona. ‘Ben Is Back’ Review: A Mother and Son Face the Horrors of Addiction 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The decision by Mr. Trump, if such it is, to promote his daughter and not his wife as consort on the campaign trail, is a shrewd one, Mr. Luntz said. Melania Trump, the Silent Partner 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z "I keep a pencil sharpened at both ends," he wrote in his notebook; and the same shrewd insight holds for the artist moving between art-forms and genres. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z She’s shrewd, but having come from the slums, she finds managing household servants rather awkward, and she’s ambivalent about life with the rich, powerful man who has made of Marx “something like a wife.” Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z I suspect Sandra Bullock is shrewd and candid enough to feel the degree of generosity in her Oscar for The Blind Side. David Thomson on Sandra Bullock 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z The stars, with their unimpeachable talent, filmographies and feminist cred, are a shrewd way of blunting skepticism. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Smallwood is a shrewd cultural critic, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. A Debut Novel With Prose as Lively as Its Heroine’s Mind 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z But the veterans, whose candid testimonies are interwoven in voice over, are the movie’s shrewdest addition. ‘Apocalypse ’45’ Review: Graphic Images of Wartime 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Disney is realising the success of a shrewd acquisition strategy over the past decade, becoming the dominant force in genres from superheroes to animated children’s films. 2017: the sequel … seven lessons for Hollywood after summer’s disasters 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The shrewd reason: He owes it to them. Perspective | Joe Biden should appoint women to half his Cabinet posts. That’s not just fair, it’s smart. 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z This shrewd and scientifically inclined artist, born in Poland and based in Berlin, has delivered the best edition in five years of the Met’s hit-or-miss rooftop sculpture commission. 19 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Wang is not a great designer, though he probably would be happy to accept any laurels that people want to toss him, but he is clearly a shrewd guy. Fashion Review: Pursuit of the New, or Just the Sellable 2010-09-13T21:34:00Z “Blatant hypocrisy,” Hulse declares in this entertaining and shrewd book, is a “defining characteristic” of the United States Senate, certainly in the 21st century. How Supreme Court Nominations Became So Partisan 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z She lamented that “God and most Christian holy people artistically have been recreated in images of whiteness. This shrewd propaganda undeniably lessen the worthiness of most of the Earth’s people.” Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The shrewd business sense he accumulated over the years — even as a teen bandleader — kept him on the cutting edge of the growing and ever-diversifying Latin music scene. How the Record Man Harvey Averne Helped Take Latin Music Worldwide 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z With his shrewd, narrow eyes, non-movie-star face and slightly thick-set build, Luke Wilson is a master at capturing seemingly sympathetic and ordinary dudes who hold just a hint of danger. "Middle Men": Heroes of the Internet-porn revolution 2010-08-05T15:01:00Z The interplay of styles is exciting and illuminating, but Ms. Sen is shrewd to save the two central numbers of the program for herself and Ms. Satpathy. Dance Review: The Collaborative Show ?Samhara? at the Joyce Theater 2012-03-21T20:49:44Z Her mother, the former Marian Barradale, helped prop up the family’s declining fortunes during the Depression with shrewd investments in real estate on Nantucket. Priscilla Morgan, Cultural Matchmaker, Dies at 94 2014-04-03T05:01:14Z He is a smart, shrewd, imposing figure who is as feared as he is admired. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z But the would-be deity was also a shrewd faker, a sly self-inventor – he was born, a little too drably for his own taste, as Edward Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames – and a busy self-promoter. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z She lamented that “God and most Christian holy people artistically have been recreated in images of whiteness. This shrewd propaganda undeniably lessen the worthiness of most of the Earth’s people.” Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z One-on-one interviews are Kellerman’s strong suit, so expect some shrewd instant analyses and unwittingly funny observations — like “Destroying a wedding has a personal feeling.” Stalkers and Dead Wedding Guests: The Latest in Crime Novels 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z "I can't help but think that somehow we're part of this master plan of his," Bailey says playfully of the photographer, whose gifts included the shrewd marketing of his work and persona. HBO's 'Look at the Pictures' is as explicit as its subject, Robert Mapplethorpe 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Melvoin and Brown handled most of the vocals, with intermittent contributions from Mint Condition’s Stokley Williams, a shrewd vocalist who often seemed to be singing along with the crowd instead of the other way around. Review | How to throw a Prince concert without Prince 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Each musician took a solo that suggested a hastily drawn portrait of his style: insistent and bouncy for Mr. Hoiby, methodical and temperate for Mr. Neame, feverish and shrewd for Mr. Eger. Music Review: Phronesis, European Jazz Trio, Performs at Jazz Standard 2013-07-03T20:37:07Z It warned, too, of shrewd fish and challenging waters. Casting in Colorado, Away From the Crowds 2012-08-22T19:37:27Z And Val, shrewd and ruthless but with an unexpectedly sentimental streak, may soon be paroled ... and may discover that Heloise was the one who turned him in. 'And When She Was Good': Laura Lippman at 'top of her game' 2012-08-16T20:53:04Z And while his lyrics feel as lazy and careless as ever, Thicke is also shrewd enough to defuse his most provocative lines with silliness. Robin Thicke ignites discussion with ‘Paula,’ but these songs aren’t worth talking about Spofford is scornful and shrewd, and he’s hostile to the newcomers who have invaded Woodsmoke, once a rustic Connecticut village and now a wealthy commuter stop much like Westport, where the De Vries family lived. The off-kilter universe of novelist Peter De Vries, back in print 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Spencer Tracy, in his second feature, stars as “Bugs” Raymond, a shrewd, cocky roughneck who rises from working-stiff truck driver to the ruling racket boss of an unnamed Midwestern metropolis. In ‘Quick Millions,’ a Young Spencer Tracy Knocks ‘Em Dead 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z In 2020, ingratiating oneself to a shrinking cadre of male gatekeepers is no longer the shrewd strategy it once was. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z “Yours Unfaithfully,” Miles Malleson’s 1933 play, now receiving its world premiere at the Mint Theater, is a refined, rueful and often shrewd comedy about polyamory, written decades before open relationships were quite so openly discussed. Review: ‘Yours Unfaithfully,’ on an Open Marriage and Its Pitfalls 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z This is a shrewd and lively performance, fueled by some degree of calculated self-mockery, but I'm not sure it's enough to change public perception in any widespread fashion. Tom Cruise's crazy, clever comeback attempt 2010-06-23T13:01:00Z Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca was the great man’s Hollywood debut; he was brought to the US by the shrewd David O Selznick, who effectively placed a crown on his head. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z He has a shrewd sense of humor, a way of mocking himself through materials: all those recycled jeans, and all that crazy hands-on sewing! Jim Hodges at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The fact that, so far, this hasn't been the case is largely thanks to some shrewd plotting. TV highlights 22/04/2013 2013-04-22T06:00:15Z I found these litanies shrewd, a signal that Bateman is all about surfaces. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z "But even when the show’s present-day updates are shrewd, its comic ideas are haphazardly flung about." Review: In ‘ms. estrada,’ Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Starring Michael Kitchen as Christopher Foyle, a detective as honorable as he is shrewd, the series has morphed over the years from a provincial home-front cop show to a le Carré-like Cold War thriller. A Winter Bounty for Serious TV Fans 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z She was a small woman with a heavy French accent who, I could tell right away, was shrewd and disciplined in all matters of business. Rejected: One man’s endless search for a media internship 2014-04-28T00:00:00Z Giannoli's 2006 movie, The Singer, with Gerard Depardieu as a fading lounge singer, was shrewd and interesting on the subject of celebrity. Superstar – review 2012-08-30T16:44:35Z “Arnold was supposed to be shrewd and nobody’s fool, but also misguided; after learning his lessons, he was easily tamed and cuddled.” Gary Coleman, ?Diff?rent Strokes? Star, Dies at 42 2010-05-28T22:19:00Z Our host, Karim Raslan, one of the shrewdest pundits on Southeast Asia, cited it as one of the reasons why he spends half of his time working and living in Indonesia. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z It is a brilliantly acute sketch, typically poised between exact observation and the desire to tell a story: Combination of shrewd business woman, genuine artist, lonely middle-aged woman anxious to please, and mad-woman. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Bloom’s shrewd film unpacks the Fox News model of “riling up the crazies.” The dark arts of Fox News’ Roger Ailes: “If Trump didn’t exist, Roger Ailes would have crea... 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z With "The Pale King," the reader is off the hook, and free to take each part of this funny, shrewd, suspenseful, piercing, smart, terrifying and profound book as it comes. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z But recently he’s become shrewd, strong, graceful, authoritative. Critics' Choice: New CDs by Sharon Jones, E-40 and Bill Callahan 2010-04-04T21:55:00Z An anonymous photograph shows him in moustache and bandolier, momentarily still while others move in rapid blurs around him: shrewd, watchful and reserved, quite different from the exhibitionist portrayed by the American Horne. Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-40 – review 2013-07-06T23:05:35Z Say what you will about these “light” books, the characters in them are psychologically shrewd and very entertaining. Review | Best new audiobooks to listen to this month 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Teasing and shrewd, “Rabbit à la Berlin” is a floppy-eared fable about the uneasy trade-offs between liberty and security. | 'Rabbit ? la Berlin': Out of Paradise and Into the Pot: A Post-Communism Parable 2010-12-07T23:02:00Z Wiener was, and maybe still is, one of us; far from seeking to disabuse civic-minded techno-skeptics of our views, she is here to fill out our worst-case scenarios with shrewd insight and literary detail. A Tech Insider Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Competitors were sometimes thrown off by the unflappable geniality, since he was a shrewd competitor, adept at luring clients and pleasing them. In Their Words: Remembering I.M. Pei 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z He was very shrewd in his own way. "MLK/FBI" director: "White men in power are frightened of losing their control of America" 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z These novels were learned and scrupulously based on fact, but also witty and contemporary-feeling, full of gossip and shrewd asides. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z She already possessed a husky rasp and applied a shrewd sense of rhythm to her phrasing. Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z He was also a shrewd businessman with interests in commercial radio and television in Britain, and a tireless worker for numerous charities. Oscar-winning British film director Richard Attenborough dies: BBC 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z In “Wendy and the Lost Boys,” Julie Salamon’s shrewd, gripping biography, the gap between the public rendition of a life and how it was actually lived is shown at times to be startlingly wide. The Wendy Chronicles 2011-08-17T16:52:55Z At different times and from various angles Mr. Obama is a fiery orator, an aloof intellectual, a policy nerd and a shrewd strategist. ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Django Unchained’ and an Obama-Inflected Cinema 2013-01-16T16:28:50Z The choreography of battle sequences is complex and well mounted, the production design sumptuous, the acting of the mostly Japanese cast shrewd and passionate. Against Hercules, Box-Office Disaster 47 Ronin Is the More Winning Flop 2014-01-12T20:09:28Z Jascha and Lilka reminisce about when they first met: He was 23 and roguishly handsome, known throughout the ghetto as one of its shrewdest young smugglers. Book World: ‘The Train to Warsaw’ by Gwen Edelman As the Black owner of a trucking company, he has to be shrewd to contend with the unrefined racism of white truckers and the self-anointed superiority of oil executives. ‘I’m Charlie Walker’ Review: More Wink Than Wallop 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Its bold ambition to capture the nation and the era is enriched by its shrewd attention to the challenges and sorrows of parenthood. Review | Gary Shteyngart takes aim at white male privilege 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z And it manages to not only avoid being outright irritating, but to be surprisingly entertaining, largely because of Morton’s shrewd, steely performance as the overachieving Catherine. A Thanksgiving Binge Menu: 7 Fall Shows You Might Have Slept On 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z He’s a shrewd thinker, understood by friends and adversaries as a man who can see several steps ahead on the board and manipulate various parties to a cleverly orchestrated outcome. Miller's Crossing at 30: the Coen brothers' unknowable gangster drama 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Lepore is shrewd about the sticky ethics here, carefully documenting how little research Mitchell did, how much he preferred just listening to Gould. What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It's a shrewd performance, and Marinelli exudes charm and sex appeal as young, humble Martin. "Martin Eden" star Luca Marinelli on the struggle of the artist as individualist 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z As Kat she oscillates among the roles of devout mentor, shrewd academic and petty woman with a crush. ‘Your Own Personal Exegesis’ Review: Blessed Be the Young and Lustful 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z And the program’s larger lesson is about the shrewd manipulation of emotion. ‘Frontline’ Review: Why the Climate Changed but We Didn’t 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Her shrewd caricatures of these supposedly respectable doctors feel justified, audits of their toxic psychology. ‘The Patient Gloria’ Review: A Theatrical Remedy for Toxic Therapy 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Castro may emerge here as a cynical amoralist, but he is also something of a regular guy: shrewd, sardonic, finely intelligent and abrasively honest. The Autobiography of Fidel?Castro by Norberto Fuentes 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z He was in some ways his own best creation, and "Nadar" was both an artistic signature and a shrewd commercial logo. My hero: Félix Nadar by Richard Holmes 2013-04-26T18:01:01Z The shrewdest thing to say about Pauline Kael – beyond recognising that she was essential – is that she was kind of crazy. The warrior critic: in praise of Pauline Kael 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z And it begins with BuzzFeed and its shrewd leader Jonah Peretti, the industry’s stalwart in figuring out how to profit off the ways modern technology taps into America’s id. Jill Abramson’s Book Charts Journalism’s Stormy Seas, With Some Personal Regrets and Score-Settling 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z He’s been pretty shrewd about the value of art.” Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z It’s also thrilling, bewildering, campy, shrewd, mortifying, scary, devastating and deep. Review: African-American Flight 1619 Now Boarding in ‘Ain’t No Mo’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The Shakers “were the shrewdest Yankees going,” he noted. The Shakers Are Movers, Too 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z In his shrewd new book “The Nineties,” Chuck Klosterman argues that nothing defined that decade more than the concept of selling out. Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Alas, this sort of self-serving thing wouldn’t work for modern newspaper columnists because wise, shrewd and scrupulously ethical people like Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos would see through it in an instant. Gene Weingarten’s most pathetic career moment? This column idea. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z This guy is very shrewd when it comes to his media. Mar-a-Lago: Where Donald Trump learned to be king 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z White’s shrewd, interlocking essays yield no new juicy gossip about the occasionally wayward and chronically manipulative director, but they draw from the huge trove of revelations by Donald Spoto, Patrick McGilligan and other biographers. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z His condition was invoked in both series: humorously on “Curb,” and dramatically on “The Good Wife,” where he played a shrewd lawyer who used his symptoms to sway a jury. Michael J. Fox Returning to NBC With Sitcom in 2013 2012-08-21T21:54:36Z In a shrewd instant, Marion reaches a conclusion Hitchcock cleverly never spells out. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z He was a bright, shrewd man who had passed the grammar school exam but didn’t go, because his mother couldn’t afford the uniform. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z In "Other Desert Cities," Baitz etches an incisive, shrewd portrait of a wealthy Southern California clan fissured by mental illness, politics and loss. Cue the 2012 Tony Awards, and a stripped-down Broadway season 2012-06-07T21:40:41Z It would not be accurate to consider Harron and Turner’s American Psycho a feminist critique of Ellis’s novel so much as a clever and shrewd articulation of it, with less potential for being misunderstood. American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z But Ms. Giannini is shrewder than that and, after several years of heading the design team, more independent. Fashion Review: Designers Anonymous 2011-01-19T22:49:22Z Instead, the cognitive dissonance induced by the show bewildered me: Why was Swift, a shrewd businesswoman, blathering on so cheesily? Taylor Swift Is Confusing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s a shrewd formatting move on Marvel’s part. ArtsBeat: 'Fantastic Four' Gets a Reboot, and the Critics Weigh In 2012-02-02T22:15:45Z Bess, in particular, was a shrewd "lady speculator", adept at playing the stock market and managing investment portfolios, acting on tips from her friends the Rothschilds and the Barings. Sisters of Fortune by Jehanne Wake - review 2011-08-19T21:55:03Z Jay-Z built an empire through a series of shrewd, calculated decisions. Review | In a nearly perfect concert, Jay-Z embraces his personal imperfections 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Hekselman, a fiercely melodic guitarist and an increasingly shrewd composer, released a strong album this year, “Ask for Chaos.” 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Luc Bondy, a Swiss-born stage director whose productions, known for their shrewd probing of human behavior and attention to acting subtlety, were featured in Europe’s most prestigious theaters and opera houses, died on Saturday. Luc Bondy, Swiss-Born Theater and Opera Director, Dies at 67 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Wyoming native Box is a gripping writer and a shrewd observer of his state's rugged wilderness. Tops in crime fiction: Best mysteries of 2011 2011-12-07T23:39:04Z In the case of child beauty pageants, Orenstein offers a shrewd critique of why media exposés of the phenomenon are so perennially popular. Is Pink Necessary? 2011-01-21T19:14:59Z The author’s observations of Scroll are shrewd and humorous, and she realistically describes the experience of being a working mom. 3 Books That Delve Into What Work Means to Us 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z “He was probably shrewd to operate behind the scenes on civil rights legislation, although his invisible hand was often taken for detachment,” the books says. Books of The Times: Evan Thomas’s ‘Ike’s Bluff’ Looks at Eisenhower 2012-09-24T22:29:05Z It’s sweet earnestness in a shrewd, ambitious package. Review: ‘Lukas Graham’ Lands Where Pop Meets R&B 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Heard’s “A Taste for Honey,” in which a shrewd elderly gentleman named Mr. Mycroft, now retired to the country to keep bees, confronts an ingenious murderer. Review | The enduring fascination with Sherlock Holmes: It’s elementary. 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z At Sanctuary, Mercuriadis built a reputation as a shrewd industry player and a vigorous advocate for talent. This Man Is Betting $1.7 Billion on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Takers and suckers some of them may be, but many are also shrewd, angry, bitter, and desperate. Our politics are broken and toxic: How both party elites betrayed our trust, birthed Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z A high trumpet, singing very sweet, played by a funny, shrewd, grouchy, fatherly, fragile man, who has to keep playing. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z DI: Is it too blatant a move by the Tonys organizers to have the “Glee” folks on the show tonight – or is that a shrewd choice on their part, to reach out to new viewers? Live-Blogging the Tony Awards 2010-06-13T23:58:00Z Perhaps he was simply a politically shrewd Prussian. My grandfather was a Nazi. Our family's story of complicity shows where the road to extremism leads 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Her eyes were brown, sensitive and shrewd, erotic and calculating. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Friends and teammates testify to his generosity, his charisma and his shrewd ability to foster and profit from his image as an all-around good sport. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Though most were people who were new to political action, the leaders of Act Up were shrewd and relentless, attacking the government and the pharmaceutical industry in mass demonstrations. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z What finally got me to brave LaGuardia was a shrewd, surprising exhibition on French painting at the turn of the last century. Finding a Globe’s Worth of Art Treasures Close to Home 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Danny Boyle made a shrewd choice when he approached the electronic duo Underworld to offer the job of soundtracking Isles of Wonder, the opening ceremony show. Underworld's brief to 'frighten people' at the London 2012 opening ceremony 2012-08-02T19:00:09Z Netflix’s decision to buy it, then drop it in a surprise move after one perfectly placed TV ad and an equally shrewd social media campaign was nothing if not brilliant. Perspective | Netflix made a bold move with ‘The Cloverfield Paradox.’ Can it be as audacious with quality films? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z A more cynical agent might call it a shrewd move, a me-too book that capitalizes on a publishing fad for so-called addiction memoirs. A Book Agent?s Descent and Ascent From the Ashes 2010-05-28T22:45:00Z Kynaston, in this shrewd, funny and ever-readable book, depicts Britain in 1957-59 as a country chafing at traditional puritanical paternalism, and both gullible and indiscriminate as it edged towards tacky, often destructive forms of modernity. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z |
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