Kondo, cannily, uses the term "tidying" for what she does.
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Mr. Stewart has used the moment cannily, hamming it up.
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Undone cannily avoids that pitfall thanks to two different strengths.
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But Lyft cannily exploited liberal dissatisfaction with its main competitor.
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Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair: Spielberg's film is rousing and cannily made.
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But for the most part, the show is cannily self-aware.
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Eager ambition is cannily used as the production's revved-up motor.
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Any heat seems to be cannily generated by Trump himself, via Twitter.
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A blow for Mr Kim, and he may not be responding cannily.
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The Germans have also cannily expanded what counts as a premium car.
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Paper, $15.99 Jerkins cannily opens her book with a familiar scene: cheerleader tryouts.
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But it was cannily political, attuned to the value of alliances and flexibility.
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When the Trump marriage soured in February 1990, Ms. Smith chose sides cannily.
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Mr. Gerhaher is a superb lieder singer, cannily inflecting and coloring almost every syllable.
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He has also cannily positioned himself as a unique guardian against his own regime.
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Cannily, HKEX is pushing for "non-standard governance features" only on the new third board.
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ISIS cannily exploited that anger and fear to recruit new fighters from disaffected Sunni communities.
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So Hong Kong needs a new form of politics that involves playing a long game cannily.
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This essentially intimate exhibition reflects how cannily these women walked the line between private and public.
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Williams cannily exploited gaping loopholes in the health insurance system that allowed him almost unfettered entry.
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And it has marketed itself cannily as a family firm and a store of national pride.
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But in any case, Dublin cannily put all its chips on Brussels to serve its interests.
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It has, quite cannily, channeled its public communications through South Korea, making it easier to renege.
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The new book is cannily constructed, and so instantly absorbing that it feels like an abduction.
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Piano, strings, quietly subtle rhythm guitar, and cannily minimal drum machine create thin, restrained, readymade shapes.
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Ms Benjamin cannily withholds information, leaving readers eager to see how each new story tops the last.
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Cannily placed bumps on its cuticle channel incident light toward melanin-rich patches primed to absorb it.
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There are a lot of interested parties who could be cannily employed to the B.F.C.'s benefit.
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The mayor, very cannily this week, announced major initiatives in advance and has gotten attention for them.
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The media has cannily figured out that ordinary people, doing ordinary things, in ordinary places, is easy money.
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And yet Burnett presents himself, whether humbly or cannily, as Trump's acolyte: Robin to Trump's Batman, he insists.
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Van Gelderen understands the theatre of spectacle, and he has cannily capitalized on the intrigue surrounding his author.
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But the tweet also shows that by promoting Canadian culture, Mr. Trudeau cannily understands how soft power works.
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The collections cannily combined the audacious (trousers with a dozen pleats) and the accessible (silk-screened T-shirts).
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Indeed, he rather enjoys his outdated sensibilities, which the filmmakers cannily manage to turn into a kind of message.
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And despite rampant speculation about the designer behind the dress, she cannily managed to surprise the entire fashion world.
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To make matters worse, this seeming hick — Grant Wood (1891–1942) — quickly and cannily capitalized on this popular success.
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Mr Nazarbayev has cannily opened up to the West while staying cosy with Russia yet bolstering economic links with China.
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Puigdemont, only two years ago the mayor of the medium-sized Catalan city of Girona, has played his cards cannily.
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They commemorate a 2200 private offering of Apple Computer shares in which Mr. Kramlich, who is now 216, cannily participated.
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They were pop-punk pop stars, and they cannily found ways to shift their focus without unduly complexifying their music.
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Cannily navigating stylistic currents, he moved from folkloric nationalism to serialism and on to indeterminacy and other avant-garde techniques.
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But the Kumamoto governor was a fan and cannily waived licensing fees for Kumamon, encouraging manufacturers to use him royalty-free.
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Dudamel cannily delivered a Hollywood-style encore: Bernard Herrmann's love music from "Vertigo," the lurid dark side of Copland's American dream.
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Each rapper accelerates to hyperspeed for his final rhymes, while the music, by Trooko, cannily cranks up the tension and variation.
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Smith's narrative conveys the system's unthinking superiority, the lazy morality, the philistinism, the sense of demanded privilege and analyzes it cannily.
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Rather, the space is cannily organized and aggressively frontal, addressing viewers with effects that range from seductive intricacy to slamming directness.
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It also cannily reduces the chance of a single Brexiteer emerging as a rival if the process's outcome disappoints the diehard Leavers.
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In some small moments, it cannily captures the inequality Cleo faces as a woman of indigenous descent working in a servile role.
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But she did cannily respond to the offensive against her book by releasing recordings of conversations with Mr. Trump and other officials.
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But the deeper you get into The Path's first season, the more Goldberg reveals how cannily she has constructed this particular puzzle.
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This also cannily reorients the show on the parallel track to reality it ran on for much of the first two seasons.
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In chess, zugzwang occurs when it's your move, but your opponent has cannily set you up to dig yourself deeper into defeat.
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By that measurement, "Memories…Do Not Open" — the first full-length Chainsmokers album — is a savvy success that cannily toys with expectations.
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And by making this self-destructive character a confessional newspaper columnist, Stone cannily explored the limits and lure of 21st-century voyeurism.
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Canterbury's environmental regulations are enforced, where they are enforced at all, by a regional council that cannily uses the name Environment Canterbury.
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Kaur cannily understands the contradiction that we want technology—in this case, a very powerful computer—to connect us to real people.
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Canterbury's environmental regulations are enforced, where they are enforced at all, by a regional council that cannily uses the name Environment Canterbury.
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Wearing a glamorous blue dress, Cuthbert stood directly behind celebrities, bearing a tray of bottled water and often staring cannily into the camera.
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Mr. Ridley cannily uses the monologue form to sustain — and confuse — the gap between his characters' perceptions and the hard world they inhabit.
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The 85-year-old mogul's 11 billion pound offer for the 61 percent of the group Fox doesn't already own looks cannily timed.
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He cannily bought up control over parts of the large Russian resource sector, in areas like aluminum and copper, when they were privatized.
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Then again, this is the Hunger Games, which has always been cannily prescient about its connections to real-life authoritarianism and dystopian society.
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Nassar's victims said the doctor cannily won over their trust, making them feel special or privileged because of his position with USA Gymnastics.
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As I reported in a story about the Nashville Statement, their machinations will eventually cost them the power they've worked so cannily to achieve.
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Theatrical but not grandiose, with an edge of humor, it's a cannily judged introduction to the work of Ms. Levete and her practice, AL_A.
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But as more police departments have adopted the cameras, they have also begun to cannily take advantage of a tool that they once distrusted.
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In Ward's telling, they are manipulative, calculating and insincere, cannily propping up an image of themselves as moderating influences on the president without real gains.
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These interpretations, set in a women's prison, cannily used the perceptible distance between actresses and their roles to point out the artificiality of masculine posturing.
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As directed by Lila Neugebauer, with a precision-tuned six-member cast, the production cannily uses interactive acting to plumb the dysfunction in group dynamics.
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His support has blossomed on social media — followers on the most popular pro-Duterte pages number in the millions — which his administration has cannily harnessed.
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We consume the news that Facebook decides to slide into our News Feed and applaud DJ Khaled's prowess in cannily pairing hot rappers and producers.
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Mr. Volcker is no great fan of the president, but he acknowledged that Mr. Trump had cannily recognized the economic worries of blue-collar workers.
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Her voice sounds both guileless and cutting; she can be tough, sympathetic, vulnerable or brusque, bouncing syncopated syllables against tracks that often stay cannily unadorned.
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He has cannily positioned himself as the adult in the room, only to provide cover while the bullies and the class clowns run around unobstructed.
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The Soviet Union, more cannily, traded arms, planes, and tanks for Spain's sizable gold reserves, the transfer of which crashed the value of the peseta.
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And yet the more you watch the series, the more you realize that Waller-Bridge is cannily using the rules of modern TV comedy against us.
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David Moore cannily directs the camera through the bowels of the ship in a way that emphasizes both its tight quarters and its seemingly endless ecosystem.
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A cannily chosen dress paraded in this annual tournament of chic can complement — or contradict — an actor's screen persona, cement a reputation or reboot a career.
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But virtually every expert now dismisses those explanations, saying that North Korea has managed its history-defying survival too cannily to be anything but coldly rational.
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From that contrived-seeming premise, Wright builds an action-comedy like no other, one that cannily uses its omnipresent soundtrack to narrative, thematic, and stylistic ends.
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We learned how ethnic Malay communities in kampungs continued to labor in the fields and fisheries while the British cannily placed aristocratic Malay elites in administrative positions.
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Cannily drawing upon a mash-up of global cultures, Moon's art is represented by galleries in New York and Atlanta (where the Korea-born artist is based).
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"Gabo" was not only a tremendous writer; he was an expert showman who once worked in advertising and cannily played up his Caribbean exoticism for foreign audiences.
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It would be hard to top "The New One" when it comes to a willful blandness that feels not so much tossed off as cannily thought through.
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Porsche began to boom once it cannily realised that its coveted horse-and-antlers badge could adorn the bonnets of a range of less obviously sporty models.
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It is possible to fill a show with photographs of Douglass, who cannily managed his image and is considered the most-photographed person in 19th-century America.
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Third, French politicians cannily played on old diplomatic relationships with allies in the Middle East and Asia, which accounted for nearly 70% of exports from 2010 to 2014.
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What Pichai and Upstill neglect to mention is that these pretty, enticing products are cynical and cannily devised solutions to problems that metastasized under Google's Sauron-esqe eye.
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Nearly five years ago, the French-trained pastry chef Dominique Ansel trademarked the Cronut, that cannily named croissant-doughnut hybrid sold from his storefront in SoHo, New York.
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Gail Collins You know, it might be less terrifying if Donald Trump had cannily tried to obstruct justice, plying his F.B.I. director with flattery and carefully scripted suggestions.
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It cannily reverses the original movie's dynamics, with cowboy Woody now the one who's unhappy being a toy and Buzz Lightyear having to pull him back from the brink.
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At the party's convention in Toronto, where a few thousand members voted, his team cannily asked them to "mark Andrew as number one or number two on your ballot".
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At Halloween, the spunky Maya cannily parlays her anger at not being allowed to go trick-or-treating into a promise of three-quarters of her older sister's candy.
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But with love to Garbage and Nine Inch Nails and even U2, only Radiohead synthesized them flawlessly and cannily enough to change the expectations for future rock albums themselves.
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Yet at a moment when you might have expected the air of Rhinebeck to be rent with cries of lamentation worthy of Sophocles, Nelson has cannily turned down the volume.
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Come for the indefatigably Bond-worthy Idris Elba as Bloom's own Atticus Finch and stay for a secondhand glimpse of Tobey Maguire's latent sadism via a cannily diabolical Michael Cera.
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It then cannily segues into a satirically cadenced exchange among three women about annoyances familiar to almost any female on this planet — being catcalled, ogled and casually fondled by men.
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Ms. Scheer, a young playwright out of Boston, cannily exploits the porousness of that divide within adolescents, who still half-believe that thinking hard enough can transform fictions into facts.
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So after leaving, he cannily aligned himself with Fox News and other influential groups on the right, like the counter-jihadists, who saw him as an experienced and credible commentator.
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Nate Lowman, 0003, is a New York artist whose 2000 "Marilyn" paintings, which cannily combine echoes of de Kooning and Warhol, resold for as much as $22,2000 at auction in 2014.
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Mr Spahn by contrast is a liberal who has cannily aligned himself with the CDU's conservatives on refugees and integration and is a good friend of the FDP's leader Christian Lindner.
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He circumvented arms embargoes with creative ruses, such as buying warplanes as, purportedly, film props, and cannily found leaky frigates and rusty tanks in places where they were no longer needed.
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In the process, he's cannily exploited the license given to entertainers to talk about race in offensive ways, benefiting from the forgiveness that's extended more readily to clowns than to politicians.
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"The Season of the Witch" suggests that prison hasn't changed Naz so much as revealed his true self, some dark and angry impulse that his ineffectual college-kid act cannily obscured.
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It's also cannily exploited continued divisions between former East and West Germany, picking up the majority of its supporters from the former German Democratic Republic, as East Germany was once called.
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The past tense of the title is cannily deceptive, highlighting a key tension, since that "when" is perpetually now: We were, are, and will be strange to and for each other.
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Jack convinces Donna that the position has been taken and cannily fakes her way through the interview posing as Donna and landing the position — for which she is totally unprepared and unqualified.
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Despair and hope, savagery and grace, grievance and reconciliation: these elements, brought to a boil by Shakespeare, have been cannily remixed in Leon's staging, which is magical in all the right ways.
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Each song locks into a groove defined by the confluence of polished keyboard, heavy funk bass, and cannily arranged ensemble singing, and there's a friendliness to the ballads that dodges gush with perk.
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While we probably won't see Bill Clinton in the car with Corden, it's likely that Obama is merely the first in our lifetimes to truly cannily harness the power her position affords her.
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It feels emblematic of the YBAs: They were radical in the sense that they were white working-class kids in Britain who cannily snookered the art system and became rich, famous and iconic.
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In Wilson's flags, which cannily pick up the numbering system by which different Asafo trade companies identified themselves, colonial encounters are documented, using the same bright figuration in piecework as the original flags.
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But conceptually and song for song, these 17 clear, rich, cannily sequenced Duke Erikson remasters—Delta guys mostly, with hokum bands and two Texans mixed in for extra flavor—leaves them in the dust.
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Animated by a kind of Victorian religiosity, Mr. Bleckner's cannily postmodernist yet unabashedly sentimental art would seem to be equally far from Mr. Fischl's earthy tragicomedy tragic-comedy and Mr. Salle's bitter semiotic gamesmanship.
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Mr. Trump, with his affinity for military men and mockery of male emotion would have seen such a subservient man as weak, but Ms. Hicks cannily leveraged the president's own misogyny to her advantage.
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The first "Men in Black" was released in July 1997 and, with Barry Sonnenfeld directing, quickly took off with its bright, fizzy nonsense and its cannily paired leads, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
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Though she stops short of wardrobe color-coding, she cannily divides navy from black in her closet to bypass the time-consuming process of discerning between the two in the early morning half-light.
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She takes him to his grandmothers' apartment in Hollywood, or on antiquing expeditions, or to her own home nearby, a French-style manse obsessively decorated with her cannily scavenged treasures ("period, not mo-derne").
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" And Weiner, Daniel D'Addario pointed out at Salon, had a tendency to "cannily [tilt] a conversation on its axis to ensure her issues — and sometimes her books — are at the center of a debate.
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Thus we see how fascism cannily adapts to continue to hide its ugliness, and the inherent ironies in this, with the added detail of the historical and contemporary intersecting in a wildly random way.
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With the walls filled with remediated images, and the chromatic splendor of plinths populated with domestic objects, Color-Aid cannily calls into question the hierarchy of art and design, vessel and content, image and meaning.
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Stieg Larsson employed the same formula in his novel "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," evoking the torture of women as often and as cannily as he did the sensitive male hero's commitment to feminism.
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"Michael was an entrepreneur who cannily noticed a big new gay male market in the 1970s and fulfilled it brilliantly," Felice Picano, a writer and publisher who has focused on gay culture, said by email.
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First, read his story, by Michael Shaw, who as he picked up a research trail begun by a British war correspondent, Anthony Loyd, understood what too many people either do not grasp or cannily elide.
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However, a core concern is that Kim Jong-un will cannily use the prestige of the Olympics to sanitize North Korea's image as a nuclear pariah state and quickly return to building out its nuclear arsenal.
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As it happens, many of the newer works on display in Dreamlands seem cannily aware of the inevitable threat of distraction, even guarding against it at the architectural level by snugly ensconcing audiences in their folds.
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Assembling these repugnant posts and videos (cannily captured and published at the time by the industrious crime blogger and interviewee Alexandria Goddard) into a timeline of casual depravity, Schwartzman deepens her dive and widens her reach.
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Greene cannily chooses not to explicitly compare the past to the present, although today just the term "deportation" cannot help but bring up images of ICE raids, overcrowded detention centers, and the destabilization of families and communities.
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Fashion can be a racy business, in speed and in sensuality, but Ms. Sozzani, 71, with her whitened blonde curls and immaculate wardrobe, has calmly and cannily lasted out the tidal cycles of trend and counter-trend.
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Jackie Robinson, my hero, ran faster, hit more cannily, executed double plays and taunted opposition pitchers and infielders with greater skill, guts and swagger than anyone else in the game (to the best of my unstatistical knowledge).
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That socializing would have happened not in Chanel's private rooms, but in the hotel's public salons and dining rooms — precisely where Lagerfeld cannily chose to stage his trio of shows to guests seated for luncheon, tea and dinner.
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Adams had cannily brought the IRA to a position of not using the weapons: They weren't technically defeated, but it was a bad-faith impasse that helped bring down the unionist leaders they negotiated the peace agreement with.
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But there is one sense in which the basic disparity between this actress and this role feeds the quickening sensibility that infuses every aspect of Farber's interpretation, which cannily condenses and rearranges the text for speed and focus.
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Marianne Vitale's exhibition at Invisible-Exports, Equipment, cannily alludes to this preening masculine vanity that comes to the surface through the machinery of military power, but also gets at the slightly menacing playfulness with which it is intertwined.
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But Baby Driver also follows many of the beats of the classic Hollywood musical — a form that Wright knows and loves — particularly in the courtship between Baby and Debora, which cannily uses music to narrative, thematic, and emotional ends.
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But its co-founder Stewart Butterfield cannily presented it as a powerful alternative to email and, over time, as a command hub for the workplace that would integrate all the other software a company uses into a single interface.
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When Braun was captured, in 1945, he realized that the Soviets would become the next archenemy of the American military-industrial complex, and cannily promoted the idea of a high-tech weapons program to ward off the Bolshevik menace.
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The company's website cannily bottles and sells small ink samples and walks you through how-tos: how to "flush" a pen, how to use a wax seal (there are now flexible ones that can go through the postal machines).
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He wants to satirize the president, but also to investigate the way that the president resists satire, and he has cannily constructed a fictional machine that both attacks the problem and pre-emptively defends itself against shortfalls or insufficiencies.
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A gimmick like this can work in a book — I'm put in mind of James Merrill's Ouija board, and also of all the bleak jokes littered though Lynne Tillman's terrific 1998 novel "No Lease on Life" — if cannily employed.
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Into that traditional story Virgil cannily inserted a number of showstopping glimpses into Rome's future military and political triumphs, complete with cameo appearances by Augustus himself—the implication being that the real-life empire arose from a god-kissed mythic past.
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Mr. Ramaphosa cannily appointed independent commissions of inquiry and used their findings to fire the leadership at the South African Revenue Service and the National Prosecuting Authority, which were seen as two of the most "captured" critical organs of state.
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And few artists have more cannily predicted and reflected, not to mention contributed to, this phenomenon than Raymond Pettibon, whose career retrospective, with more than 20053 annotated drawings and paintings, fills three floors and the lobby of the New Museum.
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She swiftly takes inventory of her situation and begins to find ways to rise up the palace food chain, gaining the notice not just of Masham, a gentleman of the court whom she starts to cannily woo, but Queen Anne herself.
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In effect, Roberts has cannily addressed the issue of drug and dream narratives, which is that no one really wants to hear you talk about them, by presenting visually rich and evocative images that offer much to engage the viewer, context notwithstanding.
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His cannily crafted speech melded the familiar themes of his stump speech with an endorsement of Clinton -- and it seemed, at times, in doing so he was allowing his supporters one last moment of collective grief at the end of his movement.
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However, ongoing debates about representation, repatriation, and cultural appropriation — all cannily encapsulated in Killmonger's memorable visit to the Museum of Great Britain in Black Panther — affirm that a great deal of work is still needed to make our museums truly welcoming and diverse.
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By embracing the protests, Hamas cannily aligned itself with a popular movement that became even more popular as it took shape — and that generated an outpouring of international support when Israel responded with gunfire, killing dozens of Palestinians, almost all of them unarmed.
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Parker shrewdly deals with slavery by making a movie not about the archetypal—and perverse—imagery of, say, a ripped brother stripped to the waist, but cannily uses children as a way to show how deeply ingrained the institution of slavery was.
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And Mr. Frankel and Mr. Korie, who gave Ms. Ebersole the part of a lifetime with their best-known collaboration (with Mr. Wright), "Grey Gardens," have written numbers for their stars that cannily play to their separate but equal strengths — think trumpet (Ms.
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That was Polish President Andrzej Duda's pitch when he used a joint press conference with the U.S. president in Washington Tuesday to directly campaign for a permanent U.S. military base on Polish soil, cannily appealing to Trump's desire to stamp his name on large institutions.
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But it is also true that time, unforgiving and unstoppable, is cannily presented as the shaping element in "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations," which opened on Thursday under the shrewd direction of Des McAnuff, with sensational choreography by Sergio Trujillo.
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I particularly like the hanging loop on the inside of the bib to keep it from dragging on the floor, and the three pockets (one of which has a pull-out measurement conversion chart, cannily printed right way up for the wearer) keep things handy.
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But she noted that while Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump's chief strategist, is portrayed as an "evil genius" who cannily promotes images of an America at risk from immigrants and foreign competitors, Ms. Conway is depicted as "crazy" for devising and promoting similar messages.
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Under Mr. Cook, Apple has cannily avoided every minefield in tech and politics over the past couple of years, winning a windfall from President Trump's tax cut, avoiding getting burned in his trade war — all while enjoying the loyalty of every moneyed hipster and suburbanite on earth.
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Mr. Neville vows devotion through the toughest circumstances — "If you got something to go through, need someone to hold you, just take my hand" — as he cannily threads his tenor through the rapid-fire syncopation; congas patter, hi-hats hiss, horns punch and keyboards and guitar chatter and scrub.
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One of the many ways that Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor and the Met Gala's benevolent dictator, cannily rejiggered what was once an opportunity for society people to flaunt their couture finery is that a hefty percentage of its 550 attendees will be wearing clothes they do not own.
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And it cannily set up Strathairn to stand in for the side of humanity that is suspicious and afraid of the new, clinging stubbornly to the way things were, with Anna standing in for the side of humanity that embraces the future and is curious about what might be next.
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In movies like Black Swan, filmmakers cannily turn the implied horror of these stories into horror films about women's bodies and the history of dance, the pain and discomfort experienced en route to flawless performance, the exacting and sometimes abusive choreographers, and the rules that artists want and need to break.
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The conflicted feelings around Patriots Day are reminiscent of the misgivings New Yorkers felt about movies about the World Trade Center: We remember it every day, and tense up whenever a plane seems to be flying low (an impulse that Clint Eastwood cannily picked up on for this year's Sully).
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However, on a large canvas leaning in the entryway, Araujo has so cannily painted what looks like a large, slightly indistinct photograph of one of the home's architectural details, that it was frankly startling to realize it was a part of the new installation, rather than a dated part of a home-turned-tour.
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But the series also cannily relies on that notion to stir terror in moments of particular importance — as when attorney for the prosecution Christopher Darden (a magnificent, magnetic Sterling K. Brown) suggests that, hey, it might be kind of fun if O.J. were to try on the famous gloves right there in the courtroom.
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NEIL GARSTONEmeritus professor of economicsCalifornia State University,Los Angeles Regarding the push for another vote on whether Scotland should leave the United Kingdom ("The other referendum", October 19th), the Scottish National Party has played its Brexit cards cannily, but it must not underestimate the common sense of most Scots, or the fatigue following divisive referendums in 2014 and 2016.
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Cannily, Bryant paired this act with a smarmy, performative reverence for the sport's history and for every great player who came before him; this was his one real area of difference from Jordan, a genuine fucking psycho who would never be caught out showing even the smallest sincere admiration or deference to any other person, living or dead.
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The third setting is The Washington Post, where our story begins with the company's earnest patriarch, Donald E. Graham — clumsily betting on local news even as the revenue attached to it dries up, and cannily betting on Mark Zuckerberg, who reneges on a handshake deal that would have given Graham a stake in Zuckerberg's fledgling company.
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In Slow Days, Fast Company, she remarks, cannily and matter-of-factly, that the gleaming hue of her skin is largely responsible for the lust she inspires in men: The truth is that when you're as voluptuous and un-hair-sprayed as I am, you have to cover yourself in un-ironed muumuus to walk to the corner and mail a letter.
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What Drake lacks in rap versatility on Views—some of the verses here, admittedly, are the worst in Drake's career since "Last name ever, first name greatest," suggesting that he would've been better off with Quentin Miller back in the saddle—it makes up for in cannily crafting some of the finest faux-global pop since Bieber went trop-house.
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Lincoln cannily organized support among Western Republicans, secretly bought a German-language newspaper to sing his praises to immigrant voters who might tilt such swing states as Illinois and Indiana, made a smash New York oratorical debut at Cooper Union in February 1860, and saw to the publication of those 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, with friendly editing by Lincoln himself.
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The director is given to grandiose pronouncements like "If you're not prepared to risk your life, then leave now"; Irma, who serves as the Plautdietsch interpreter on set, cannily mistranslates the script so that, when the obedient wife is supposed to tell her husband that she loves him, she instead says that she is tired of putting up with his crap.
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And since Prince was the first black pop star since Stevie Wonder and/or Michael Jackson to command widespread critical acclaim and the first since Jimi Hendrix to do so by virtue of rockist ideals (like expression, significance, etc), the temptation to play the auteur must have been pressing, and Prince played the auteur more cannily and creatively than your average arena-rock striver.
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Said music nerd may indeed play dreary spot-the-influence games, designed to flatter rock critics congratulating themselves for discovering even such obvious references as the Kraftwerk hook in "Get Innocuous!" and the Bowie riff in "All I Want," but that's the point: LCD's electronic digifunk template updates the classic college-rock taste profile for modern times, with cannily assembled synthbeats and mechanical functionalist irony.
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Yoking her astonishing vocal powers to a cannily evolving image, she would engineer her own transformation into a cultural presence so commanding that, by the time she sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee," at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration ceremony (in a sedate charcoal wool coat and toque with a rotor-size bow) Ms. Franklin seemed no less an institution than the monuments around her.
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She observes cannily that "among the mother writers of today probably two of the most distinguished are Karl Ove Knausgaard and, in his way, Louis C.K." I have often thought (perhaps cynically) that male writers have more literary freedom to detail 21st-century parental domestic life, and only when a goodly number of men are stay-at-home parents will this country ever pass laws about universal pre-K.
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"Thirteen Days" (2000) The world could quite literally have come to an end during the unbearably tense 13-day period that defined the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where America and the U.S.S.R. stood eye to eye waiting for the other to blink over the deployment of Soviet missiles on the Communist nation just 90 miles off the US coast, save for the considered brinksmanship of John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and his senior staff, including a cannily cautious advisor (Kevin Costner).
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