Word: keening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Paramount ad was chillingly effective, bringing into 670 theaters around the country thousands of youths keen to see The Warriors-and eager for trouble. Since the film opened on Feb. 9, three young men have been killed by Warrior-inspired fights, and other brawls have broken out at moviehouses in several cities. More than half a dozen theaters have dropped the film entirely; others are hiring some muscle of their own, which Paramount will pay for. In Washington, B.C., two full-time guards were on duty last week at the Town Downtown and will stay there until The Warriors...
Behind this banter lay a keen intelligence. The literary value of her letters is high, not only for what she said about her own works but for her perceptive comments on others. She admired Graham Greene, with reservations: "What he does, I think, is try to make religion respectable to the modern unbeliever by making it seedy." Her comment on the Beat Generation writers was pithy and devastating...
Acosta's powerful right hand allows him to use all four walls to capitalize on his velocity, and his keen shot anticipation should enable him to reach the difficult shots that the Texas star usually hits off the back wall...
...number two slot Harvard's John Stubbs used agility and keen shot anticipation to out-finesse his opponents...
...basis of Peter Weir's new film The Last Wave, a rather stodgy thriller involving Aborigines, magic, secret underground cities, and Mother Nature at her most perverse. This is Weir's fourth film, the first to be released in this country, and in it he shows a keen sense of how to create suspense, and an unnerving inability to deliver. His first talent makes Weir one of the more innovative filmmakers around, with a vivid imagination and the ability to infuse the most commonplace events with an eerie sense of the unknown. His second talent, however, consistently undoes...