Word: keene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the highs and lows of a roller coaster, they are exhiliratingly enjoyable despite their random nature. The play's development is always one step ahead of the audience, and the race to keep up does get tiresome towards the latter half of the second act. Fortunately however, Levin, keen to an audience's limited capacity to watch and process a bullet-paced thriller, allows for extensive monologues in which characters, like members of a Greek chorus, meticulously recall events twist for twist...
...Simon & Schuster in 1988 without a lick of book-publishing experience. Yet she showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan is a passionate editor with keen commercial instincts; to detractors, an abrasive publicity hound; to readers of gossip columns, the most entertaining book editor in New York City. Three years ago she spent five hours in jail after an argument with a police officer who, she says, taunted her cab driver (the charges were dropped). Last...
...very keen on developing Turkish studies here," Mullins said...
That's hardly fair. If anything, the phenomenon shows that Harvard's spawn has, as always, a keen sense of which way the winds of change are blowing. "Underachievement [is] suddenly fashionable," Newsweek laments. But in this age, who's got a better shot at changing the world: one more addition to a horde of hungry litigators, or a writer whose vignette for "The Simpsons" will be watched and repeated by millions? "Someone has to entertain America," declared one Harvard man. Ah, duty...
Unsurprisingly, Riefenstahl refuses to see this Wonderful Horrible Life. "I cried, and they filmed it," she says. "He was brutal." But perhaps this woman whose best hours were spent looking at film could look at this one. It adapts her supple camera style and keen editing eye to an amazing subject. It could be the last great Leni Riefenstahl film...