Word: keening
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...Leslic Tamarabuchi do a fine job of blending an extremely talented cast into a more modern vehicle for the same theme. Marc Dolan as Rupert and Sue Kelly as Susan deserve especial praise for their convincing performances in difficult roles. Dolan does a fantastic job of portraying the intellectually keen Rupert while maintaining the credibility of the character. He succeeds remarkably in his role, holding the drama together in a lively yet composed performance. Kelly also succeeds in making the nerve-wraught accomplice a credible character...
...always, Gurney has a keen eye and ear for the revealing trait: the parents so in love with their young children that they wake them in mid-evening, just to be with them some more; the long-married woman who reflexively takes on the opposite mood to whatever her husband is feeling; the house salesman who comes close to true rapture in envisioning domestic bliss for all his customers. When Kitty, the best-sketched figure, loses her second husband to another man, the reader can guess the precise tone in which she describes her rival to divert sympathy...
Nothing is that clear-cut in the world of these stories. Shacochis shows a keen awareness of lush disparities. He evokes the allure of a village marketplace, "the air luscious with the smells of spices, of frying coconut oil and garlic and cumin, the scents of frangipani and lime." The counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast...
...kept on working with what Ballet Instructor Stanley Williams called a "keen concentration that is inborn." And she prevailed. Her account, with its cool assessments of rivals and careful record of all-important praise, betrays the tough, self-absorbed core that a ballerina must have. But she attributes her success to her profound submission to the will of Balanchine. "All knowledge, all power was his," she writes with total seriousness. "As I saw it, I had no choice but to place all my faith and trust in him." A particularly valuable section recounts in detail what went...
...Plymouth, the average age is only 24. Hitachi sent out a letter explaining why it wants a lower age. I have it right here. It says: "We can all accept that as we get older we become more susceptible to sickness, our reflexes become slower, our eyesight less keen and our attitudes difficult to change...