Word: sharpness
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...talks wistfully of how beautiful and strong her “children” will be. The effect is oddly sweet, mostly because of McClendon’s conviction, and lends a tone of reconciliation to “The Colored Museum” that softens its often razor-sharp edge...
...late in the second period, turned the tide in the penalty-plagued contest and gave Harvard the upper hand over Princeton. The power play—a trademark of team success in years past that now features Raimondi running point on its top unit—looked sharp in the victory, as the squad converted three of its eight man-advantage chances.. “Somebody’s got to quarterback [the power play], but anyone’s capable of doing it,” Raimondi said. “We’ve got players...
...project, which opened recently in San Francisco, smells of only one thing: an unmistakable whiff of genius. This is a building to rank with the best to appear in the U.S. in the past few years, one to give Frank Gehry ideas. A sparkling enigma, it simultaneously cuts a sharp figure and demurely withdraws behind a camouflaged surface. Behind its blunt faade, glass-walled wedges of garden emerge inside. Herzog likes to compare it all to Kim Novak in Hitchcock's Vertigo, with her cool surface and her plunging secrets...
...Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. Winner of this year's National Book Award, Proulx's rambunctious second novel zeroes in on a coastal Newfoundland community coming apart economically and socially when the fishing and seal hunting industries fail. The author has a sharp ear for regional speech and a barbed and quirky style that can be both startling and humorous...
...Line of Beauty” by director Andrew Davies, best known for period pieces like “Middlemarch” and “Pride and Prejudice.”Regardless of genre or period, Hollinghurst’s style will remain his own: singular, lyrical, sharp, and evasive of neat definition. “I’ve tried to write both as accurately and as musically as I can,” he says. “I don’t understand quite what my own style is.” Maybe being understood isn?...