Word: keening
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...time I was not so keen on opera--I was 14 or 15 years old. It was a family plot, actually. The idea was to get as many people in the Diller family into the Metropolitan Opera as possible. I was the only one they took...
Many are gorgeous, and Moliére succeeds as spectacle if not as drama. There is a wonderful celebration in the royal gardens, with fireworks and dancing fountains. Throughout there is a keen sense of place, of dirt next to grandeur, the greasy, lice-infested hair underneath those magnificent 17th century wigs. But Mnouchkine the writer has failed Mnouchkine the director. Without the mind to engage it, the eye inevitably wanders. She has provided a rich and enticing dessert but neglected the main course...
...during his first days in Salisbury. Though theoretically endowed with dictatorial powers, the new Governor planned to "play it gently," as a senior aide put it, until the cease-fire dilemma resolved itself one way or the other. A former ambassador to France, Soames has a reputation for a keen political sensitivity, an ability to get things done and a certain measure of arrogance. Predicts a friend: "He will frighten the life out of whites or blacks who dare disobey his orders...
...sustained?indeed, defined?the vaunting, unstable strength that is the soul of rock, the barefoot boogie along the keen edge of the blade. There are lots of scars and some wounds that will never heal. The music remains intact, inviolate. No other group has ever pushed rock so far, or asked so much from it. No other band has ever matched its sound, a particular combination of sonic onslaught and melodic delicacy that is like chamber music in the middle of a commando raid. No other group, in return, has ever had so much asked of it by an audience...
...quick trip to Jordan Marsh assured us that Barbie hasn't lost her teenage love of fun. She is entering her third decade with characteristic grace and a keen sense of fashion...