After the breakup, she complains that he still owes her a lot of money, the kind of real, shrewd detail that rarely gets a look-in with relationship comedies.
And after a four-hour visit, his talk full of sharp detail, shrewd observation and rollicking anecdotes, his grandiose visions presented with such crackling fervor that maybe they're not so nutty after all, Marty Silverman, who still goes to his Manhattan office daily, would also be the last person you would guess will turn 92 next month.
Performers of her work will have to look hard for an unforgettable pungent phrase (has anyone ever said: only Yasmina Reza could have put it like that?), but not at all hard for singular theatrical shocks, shrewd circumstantial detail and soliloquies that give them a moment in the sun with a big central subject.
Haffenden's marvellous book is full of shrewd readings, suggestive details, and comic facts.
"Breaking Away" and "Eyewitness" were both written by Steve Tesich, a Yugoslavian immigrant with whom Mr. Yates shared a shrewd appreciation of details that perhaps only foreigners might determine were peculiarly American.
He's got a shrewd eye for detail.
Though a resourceful news reporter and feature writer on five continents, one with an eye for telling detail, shrewd judgments (Alan Clark was "a philanderer obsessed with his own wife") and a vivid turn of phrase, he found his most comfortable niche as a humorous columnist.
His six-hundred-page book is full of riveting stories, shrewd observations, and fascinating details.
Like much of the show, the scene is written with shrewd attention to the details that make satire work.
