ANDREW WYLIE is a famously shrewd literary agent, having acquired his nickname, "The Jackal", as a result of his ability to negotiate unusually large advances from publishers for the authors he represents.
A model mixture of high-round draft picks (Mangold, Ferguson, Revis, Sanchez), shrewd free-agent signings (Taylor), and smart, Sam Pollock-type acquisitions of gifted players who had worn out their welcome elsewhere (Tomlinson, Holmes).
It was widely reported that the shrewd real estate agent in the 1987 film "Wall Street" was based on the opinionated Ms. Stein, whose loquacity and appetite for deal-making were exhaustive.
John Casablancas, the modeling agent whose shrewd and sometimes scandalous packaging of beautiful women ushered in the era of supermodels, died on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro.
Ms. Gershon's magnetic, hard-shelled agent is too shrewd to let her wounded vanity interfere with business.
Some would reduce this immigration agent to a shrewd gatekeeper of cheap labor, carting us off to a city that would get rich from the Asian work ethic.
More a detective story than a spy story, it introduced the shrewd but self-effacing intelligence agent George Smiley, who became le Carré's best-known character and was featured in several later works.
Kemp had no agent, but he was shrewd enough to reject the first offer.
Resisting mediocre free agents may not seem so shrewd if Johan Santana, John Maine and Perez go down with injuries again.
It's all about banter and rapport, and the ensemble, especially Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo as the bickering agents Tony and Ziva, is shrewd and talented enough to work inside that framework.
