Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thou though'st thy bed-mate's keen audition closed...
...broke the silence still maintained by the rest of the penthouse staffers. One is Melvin Stewart, 49, an open-faced Mormon and former barber who was the nurse who tended Hughes' bedsores and took care of him. Beneath the easygoing manner of a small-town Utah boy, Stewart is keen and tough-minded. The other is Gordon Margulis, 45, a muscular, street-smart cockney who spent his early years in London's tough East End. In 1965 Margulis set out to visit his sister in New York City, then rambled throughout much of the country, ending up in Las Vegas...
...finally taken their toll; Holmes is paranoid, obsessed with the belief that his arch-enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure and baffling mysteries and restores them to intelligibility, has become a victim of his own delusions...
RICHARD BOLLING, 60, of Missouri, who has served almost half of his life in the House. Though he is highly respected. Boiling's haughty intellectual manner sometimes ruffles colleagues. A ranking member of the Rules Committee, Boiling is a keen parliamentarian who has written two books critical of the House. If elected. Boiling would push for congressional reform and a liberal approach on domestic matters...
...Paintings like Black Bathroom #2, in which a china sink is hung on a painted canvas, and An Animal, done with oil paint and fur, challenge traditional notions of what a painting is. Underlying the deliberate crudeness and banality of many of the works of this period is a keen sensitivity to and enjoyment of the sensuous feel of paint and the manipulation of brush and pencil. This sensitivity takes the form of subtle relationships between line, tone and texture in his graphic works...