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Word: keening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, exactly what we are expected to think. Repeating the original voyage -- right down to the ?unsinkable? claim -- is just about the best way to generate publicity short of hiring Leonardo DiCaprio as cabin boy. ?We thought now would be the right moment, because the whole world is keen on ?Titanic,?? said a company spokeswoman -- who refused to elaborate on what ?modern iceberg detection equipment? the ship would be carrying. No doubt the 1,490 victims of the 1912 disaster are spinning in their watery graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Titanic Publicity Stunt | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

...again, serving as metaphor and explanation, the macho little-boy equivalent of the dolled-up kindergarten beauty queen. Frontiersboy Drew learned to bait hooks and scope out prey with his father and grandfather, developing a taste for the chili cooked up after a successful deer hunt. He had a keen eye, improving his marksmanship at a shooting range and his reflexes at the video consoles of Wal-Mart and the local bowling alley. "He played video games with guns," says his grandfather Doug Golden, standing off a dining room framed by deer antlers and a vast gun collection. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunter And The Choirboy | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...center are the Bach suites, technically demanding pieces that have an elusive yet keen emotional pull, at times both mournful and celebratory. Performing them all in one evening, as Ma has on occasion, and will again this month in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, is a feat of endurance--marathon and obstacle course in one. These are pieces that Rostropovich did not essay on record until he was in his 60s. Ma first recorded them when he was just 26. It is music entwined with his life: he first encountered them at four, when his father, a violinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yo-Yo Ma's Suite Life? | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Annan: [The Iraqis] are very keen to get rid of the sanctions. I made it very clear to him that the only way to do that is to cooperate with [the U.N. Special Commission] and get the job done expeditiously so that it is in their hands. Without their cooperation, it is not going to happen. They built the nation and had it destroyed and rebuilt it. So I asked him whether he wanted to destroy all these wonderful edifices, because that is what will happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealing With Saddam | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...Magenta's first president, Henry A. Clark, class of 1874, later recalled in a history of The Crimson that the Dean of the College was not too keen on the idea of a student newspaper at Harvard...

Author: By Michael Ryan, EDITED BY THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: The First 100 Years | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

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