Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return of spring. Lee Hoiby's music, which is not very helpful in the first half of the show becomes a lot better when we get to the outdoor singing and dancing, which Kahn wisely allows to go on at considerable length (with choreography by Elizabeth Keen...
...river and was impishly squirting Carie, who looked to be about twice her size. Lynn is obviously younger than the rest of the group, whose average age is 23--when Lynn saw Parker's son George reading a comic book called The Inkumans, she grabbed it and asked with keen interest, "Oh, have you read Swamp Things?"--but no one seems to notice the age gap too much, and today her mood was obviously in keeping with that of the team, Soon everyone was squirting everyone else...
...primarily responsible for the breakdown. The U.S. policy reassessment was ordered and aid halted until the re-examination was completed. Kissinger even invoked the specter of the U.S. leading the way to a Geneva conference it really did not want, proposing border changes that Israel at least was not keen on. He knew that neither Egypt nor Israel wanted that route because it would bring the Soviets, other Arab nations and the P.L.O. into the discussions, broadening and complicating what seemed to be a comparatively simple Sinai negotiation. The Russians did not press Kissinger for a return to Geneva. Last...
...Corners touchingly and devotedly serve the script that Wilder said was "an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life." The characters all talk pretty much the same way, but Wilder could not have fashioned their colloquial speech without a keen ear and much hard work...
Iris Murdoch, Litt.D., novelist and philosopher (The Sacred and Profane Love Machine). For her keen insight into the human condition...