Word: keening
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...spoken admiringly of Shakespeare's business sense, and he has it too; he also possesses Olivier's keen ambition, the entrepreneurial magnetism that attracts the brightest lights of Britain and Hollywood to his projects. What's lacking in this merchant of culture is Olivier's danger, the preening beauty and sweet delirium that makes an actor a star. Those are precisely the qualities that keep this admirable Hamlet--and Hamlet--from being a thrilling...
Maybe he’s growing up, or maybe the superstar producers weren’t so keen about his more visceral fare; either way Cage has definitely changed. Though the album kicks off with a hard-hitting ode to New York City, Cage quickly turns reflective, and from there, skitters off into the masturbatory pleasure of self-analysis and the accompanying big complicated words...
...fashioned color dots of past comics, to a harrowing red-hued sequence of a kiddy party interrupted by a berserk relative who starts a shoot-out through the window. Seemingly out of nowhere, Shane White has arrived with a grossly huge talent for drawing and a keen knowledge about how to use the form of comics to best editorial advantage...
...Talks on extending the "calmness" period are planned for the coming weeks, but Hamas isn't keen to give Abbas more rope unless he can secure the release of prisoners from Israeli jails - something Israel is unlikely to do unless Hamas disarms. "Under present conditions, we wouldn't be ready to continue with the calmness," says Abu Zuhry...
...Libby's lawyers "to set the record straight," Abrams argued that until recently, the waiver offered by Libby's lawyers always amounted to a reference to the previously signed waiver that Miller considered "coerced." That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Miller testify, no matter what Libby's lawyers implied--a hesitation that gave Miller pause. "He didn't call. He didn't write," said Abrams on MSNBC. After a while, "you draw certain conclusions...