Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women-including his mistress Rachel Roberts-he never makes love with them but at them. Even his father's death elicits a distorted reaction. The old man has been beaten by a Liverpool Teddy boy. The Irish cronies, suddenly repossessed by memories of the Black and Tans, keen for revenge. Marler coshes the killer with such sadistic delight that the viewer wonders whether the revenge is pure, or mere self-satisfaction...
...hair is almost gone on top. But Bobby Baker's tailoring is as impeccable as it was when he learned from the great men -Burnet Maybank, Alben Barkley, Sam Rayburn. Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kerr -to dress as though you were prosperous. There is the same keen intelligence, the same up-to-the-minute knowledge of national affairs. Nor has Baker become a more humble man despite his gentle manner. He recalls that he had once planned to return to his native South Carolina and run for office: "I have no doubt that I could have been elected Governor with...
...keen on where and how and not so keen...
...yield to no man in his respect for Aquarius. Insight-for-insight, metaphor-for-metaphor, few writers could touch him. His ability to perceive, absorb and organize details and abstractions into platoons of charging prose were proof of his exceptional intelligence. As a social critic, he had an extraordinarily keen nose for the hydrants of power...
...Hare Field, Keck was told that he was out. The news was broken by the man who presided over the meeting, Thomas Gleed, who had often tangled with Keck. Gleed, a Seattle financier who made his money in lumber, is a close friend of Patterson and a keen fan of his fellow townsman, "Eddie" Carlson...