Saint-Saëns, in his correspondence, referred to Henry as "a sausage on legs" and even more rudely as "fatso" ("petit gros"), but musically he presents the king as a dignified if complex figure who gets precisely what he wants, both as a manipulative lover and as a politically savvy hands-on king.
The lack of a skilled deal maker The successful, if flawed, passage of Mr. Obama's health care measure probably wouldn't have been possible without the savvy hand of Rahm Emanuel, who was the White House chief of staff.
But anyone who has followed the tortured history of the Osprey over the past quarter-century saw the persistent, politically savvy hand of the Marines in arranging Mr. Panetta's flight -- and another example in what has become a case study of how hard it is to kill billion-dollar Pentagon programs.
Taking a page from Mr. Rudin's savvy hand with advertising, the new producers could run big ads ballyhooing it as "The Play Broadway's Most Powerful Producer Didn't Want You to See!" I'm disappointed at the possibility of its demise because I was looking forward to seeing it again myself.
This is a classic mistake many entrepreneurs make so I'd like to offer some constructive advice on how the savvy hand would be played.
But bringing Girlzilla to life was less an exercise in style than an effort to get traditional tools into the tech- and texting-savvy hands of teenage girls.
If not a dictator, neither has he proved to be a savvy, hands-on politician in the style of Lyndon B. Johnson, Reagan or Clinton.
The fund's investors include at least one savvy tech hand: IBM.
But Webster, the savvy Washington hand that he is, hedged his bet with "I was persuaded…" Nice touch.
IT'S ME, REALLY (AND MY HAND) Savvy students at the University of New Hampshire had an idea: instead of two students paying a few thousand dollars each for a meal plan, why not buy one and share in the limitless salad bar?
By my mid-teens, I'd become so germ-savvy (washing my hands 25 times a day, pressing bus bells with my sleeve pulled over my hands, flushing toilets with elbows, et cetera) that I managed to avoid not just being sick but feeling sick altogether.
