Hughes, who was known as the Dark, brought military cunning to the job, along with a measure of glee.
Michael Vestey, who has died suddenly aged 61, was a consummate broadcaster, one of that generation of journalists who in the 1960s brought district reporting cunning and Fleet Street knowhow to the BBC's high-minded newsrooms, but were as articulate and erudite as the corporation alumni they so often elbowed aside.
Richard Harwood, who brought the determination and cunning of a combat marine to reporting and editing and, finally, to policing his own newspaper for editorial missteps, died of lung cancer on Monday at his home in Bethesda, Md .He was 75.
Portrayed by Edward Norton (one of the movie's co-producers) with the same queasy mixture of ingenuousness and cunning he brought to his career-making performance in "Primal Fear," Harlan claims to be a rancher from South Dakota transplanted to the San Fernando Valley, where he lives by himself in a crummy motel.
Mr. Sutherland brings a deliciously cunning undertone to a speaker of the House who is so out of touch with modern mores and human psychology that he insults the vice president as a woman and as a leader while trying to persuade her to step aside.
In the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, based on the novels by George R.R. Martin, she brought vinegary life to the cunning Olenna Tyrell, "Queen of Thorns".
In his book "Hip Hop America," George writes: "There was no artifice in vintage 80's Tyson, none of the cunning that [Sugar Ray] Robinson and Ali brought to the ring.
But prosecutors and the informers they brought to court always insisted that his behavior was a cunning deception.
A typical bit of Wilsonian intrigue in the 1960s made it seem cunning to bring in Charles Hill, then regarded as a reliable BBC-baiter, a disruptive move which David Attenborough likened to putting Rommel in charge of the Eighth Army.
The Italians would bring to Mercedes some cunning new technology they are developing for making cars profitably without today's expensive assembly lines.Short of some such stroke, Mr Fresco is unlikely to deliver a GE result in Fiat's core business.
