But the book's greatest pleasure is watching the Cursing Mommy instruct us, Martha Stewartishly, in how to perform household repairs, test new products and create a variety of cunning arts and crafts projects begun with great spirit, great ambition and copious quantities of alcohol.
FIFTEEN years ago, two visiting British actors, Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan, raised sexual cunning to a terrifying art on Broadway in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".
Somewhere between Suicide, the Fall and Pulp, Earl Brutus offer a singular conflation of art school cunning and dumb glam thrills, terrace chants and situationist sloganeering.
The man who has best mastered the art of cunning blandness is Vagit Alekperov, the president of Lukoil and reportedly one of the 10 richest Russians, with a fortune estimated at nearly $4 billion.
For the novelist's art is a cunning ability to lure the reader into treating counterfeit bills as if they were current.
Men, like Sheikh Mohammed, who have been taken alive in this war, are classic candidates for the most cunning practices of this dark art.
In a 1973 profile in Women's Wear Daily, he reminisces about how in "the golden days of pimping, it was an art" that required "cunning, agility and speed".
Learn the art of the cunning put-down.
The espionage charges filed against Robert Philip Hanssen yesterday portray him as a cunning practitioner of the very arts of espionage he was supposed to combat as an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(Burke) François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea (Thursday, through next Friday) As part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival, this cunning duo performs "Pâquerette," a meditation on penetration that will probably transcend, or at least transform, any preconceived associations with the word.
