Word: sharpness
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...very best pages here are without doubt the first 400, which Isherwood polished into a sharp-eyed narrative, and in which the shock of discovery between the kindly British ironist and California's odd circles of philosophers, quacks and movie stars was most electric. Isherwood's gift was for bringing a clear-eyed sympathy and an irreverent open-mindedness to even the most outlandish scenes. Almost every page, in Isherwood's best moments, is alive with immortal incident (Dylan Thomas pawing Shelley Winters at The Players restaurant, or a local hostess mistaking Stravinsky for "a comic on the Molly Goldberg...
...much luck with the fairer sex, and he nevera married despite interest in a number of women. Prudishness and shyness are partial explanations: when one woman made passes at him in a tavern, “He was at first cold, and then violent, giving her head a sharp smack,” Morris writes. But Beethoven also carried the albatross of physical unattractiveness: he had a swarthy complexion, skin pits, and short legs. One singer rejected him, “because he was so ugly, and half crazy...
...sharp, the student group that had reserved Loker for the next hour filed in and courteously gave RUS the boot...
...sharp run-up in energy prices is "an accident waiting to happen," Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday. That's not the sound of a central banker about to start sitting on his thumbs. The Fed has been raising short-term rates for a couple years-from a fed funds rate of 1% to 3.75%. Economists expect him to keep boosting the benchmark rate to about 4.5% next year...
This week, Saddam Hussein is expected to have his day in court. The former Iraqi dictator's trial will draw a sharp line between Iraq's past and its future. But don't expect it to look like Law and Order transplanted to Baghdad. A primer on the court, its task and the possible outcomes...