Word: keen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black and white only (although in his advertising and fashion work he is a master of color). The multi-image strips from the Manhattan Project Co.'s play Alice in Wonderland that greet visitors at the gallery entrance are mostly weak pictures. And Avedon, one of the keen observers of the sexual revolution in America, only toys with what he could have said on the subject...
...fathered the agreement and had cajoled, nudged and pressured both sides into accepting it. The Israelis were particularly resentful of that pressure and during the negotiations there was a coolness between them and the Americans that did not exist before. Beneath the veneer of friendship was a keen sense of hurt on the part of the Israelis. One of their negotiators told TIME'S Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter that "our relationship will never be the same again. Things were said and done that have left a black mark...
These tips are from Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It (Random House; $8.95). Another current power book, Robert J. Ringer's Winning Through Intimidation (Funk & Wagnalls; $9.95), has some equally keen advice: do not trust anybody at all; assume you will fail, so your positive mental outlook will not be crushed by a setback; make as much money as you can, because life is short and pointless and there is nothing better...
...image, but only part of the truth, and no such caricature of a woman could ever have written such brilliant novels as The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frame. The lady was indeed a snob, but, as R.W.B. Lewis' fascinating biography demonstrates, she also had a keen, if delayed taste for the erotic and a fine, hitherto undisclosed talent for dabbling in very unladylike pornography...
...stay in touch with play, during every game Finley either dials the press box and gets Traveling Secretary Jim Bank to feed him the details, or he calls a special number at KEEN radio in San Jose to plug in on the play-by-play broadcast. When he hears something he does not like, he is not shy about demanding an explanation...