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I can't recall another actor who seems at once so earnest and so cunning, so ingenuous yet with something so clearly up his sleeve.
We thrill at the telephone game of question and evasion, thinking our guile and cunning will ultimately yield truth.
More to the point, Mamet can have himself a whale of a time directing a series of civilized confrontations that escalate in importance--from the young man who asks Winslow senior for his daughter's hand in marriage (and the precise amount of her dowry) to a cunning barrister, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), who uses every rhetorical trick he can think of to wear down a Parliament weary of a twopenny schoolboy scandal.
In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.
A piece calls Hillary Clinton's campaign kickoff "cunning" and "brilliantly staged."