Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obscure member of Carter's transition team; now he occupies a grand office with a fireplace overlooking the presidential swimming pool. He promises a first-class report: "We're not going to settle for nickel-and-diming." Most other task-force members are keen-minded generalists in the Schlesinger mold, more schooled in problem solving than in energy...
...driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along at 70 m.p.h. and you charge over a hill, and you just don't know what's there...
Because of the lack of high expectations from Carter, expressions of enthusiasm-or even keen interest-are rare. Many middle-class people seem more preoccupied with the latest fads...
Larry Schember used a quick start to blaze to a 4.7 second victory in the 40-yd. dash. Schember was so keen to fly off the starting block, a camera click caused him to false start once before winning his race...
Suppressed Eroticism. With a canny mix of showmanship and a keen instinct for his craft, Baryshnikov has devised solutions that infuse his Nutcracker with logic as well as magic. There is the traditional Christmas tree that grows onstage, a puppet show and a pretty pink and white sleigh to transport Clara and her prince. But there is no Sugar Plum Fairy and the cast is entirely adult. Clara, danced by Marianna Tcherkassky, hovers somewhere between child and woman. Her godfather Drosselmeyer, brilliantly portrayed by Alexander Minz, is both fatherly and aboil with suppressed eroticism. Baryshnikov accents mystery and the paradox...