Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carolina, to Jacksonburg, Florida, and back to Savannah, Georgia, with a number of exploratory side trips in between. Although the scientific descriptions in his journals can make for dull reading-some entries are mere lists of as many as 57 plants with Latin names-Bartram brings to his work keen powers of observation as well as a poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure looked like burnished gold...
...Hoiby's music for the outdoor scenes stands up well. And, happily, the director has again permitted choreographer Elizabeth Keen enough time in the sheep-shearing festival for a substantial suite of sprightly and witty dances...
...ever since Five Fingers of Death set U.S. and European box office records in 1973, Shaw Brothers has kept a keen eye out for Western fans. Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (a Shaw Brothers-Warner Brothers coproduction) was a hit in the U.S. This year Shaw Brothers bought the rights to Taipan from MGM and budgeted $12 million to film James Clavell's bestseller...
...subject, Paul McCartney, the Beatle who came back as a Wing, is not short of fans or muscle-a burly ex-football player guards his door. But Correspondent James Willwerth found that his main obstacle on this assignment was, of all things for a rock hero, McCartney's keen devotion to family life. "Paul was far more interested in being with his children than talking to journalists," reported Willwerth. "At one point while we talked, his daughter Mary walked in, near tears. Paul walked her gently out, saying, 'All right, little Miss Emotion ...' " Willwerth followed the McCartney...
...Murrow's stature because it was Murrow's high standards in hiring during World War II when Mr. Paley said put together a news operation and he hired the right people...he insisted that they get away from the chauvinistic aspects of radio, which wasn't terribly keen on whether the facts were all there...