Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewish people, for while many things that happen after David's taking Bathsheba affect the King directly, the people are also impacted. The King abandons his subjects; he is otherwise occupied and cannot serve the national interest. It is David's son and successor, renowned for his keen mind, who is able to restore stability to the kingdom, which has been so badly shaken by David's careless and self-involved behavior...
...actress CLAIRE DANES has provoked the ire of a foreign government. While filming the movie Brokedown Palace earlier this year in Manila, she managed to miss the more tourist-friendly aspects of the Philippine capital. Recalling her experience in an interview with Premiere magazine, Danes, who apparently possesses a keen nose, recalled that the city "smelled of cockroaches." In an earlier interview, she referred to the city as "ghastly and weird." The proud members of the Manila city council could take no more. In a 23-to-3 vote, they agreed to ban all movies in which Danes appears. Philippine...
...small-boned, fearless woman with a kid's keen face, deep brown eyes set far apart, and a jaw of character, like the young Katharine Hepburn's. Sometimes the alertness in her eyes and the quick, broad smile are disconnected. At the age of 63, she is at the bottom of her field--scientist, explorer, advocate. This year she is explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society, which has a $5 million grant from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund to launch the five-year Sustainable Seas Expeditions project. As its leader, Earle will use a new, highly maneuverable...
...rapidly buying all of a musician's CDs--the aesthetic equivalent of downing a pint of Haagen-Dazs--only to find oneself still hungry, frustrated with the limits of a canon. In the case of an artist with famously lost, botched or unfinished works, this hunger can be particularly keen. I know, having recently been driven to buy a bootlegged CD of material recorded for Smile, the legendarily unfinished Beach Boys album that could have been the greatest pop record of the '60s--Brian Wilson said he was writing a "teenage symphony to God"--if it hadn't collapsed under...
Writers like that see so clearly, it's blinding. But the less keen, unconscious eye receives lessons of its own, and the one I seem to be learning is my place, our place, in the natural order or disorder. As one grows closer to being part of the earth, one begins to sense the basic equality of living things. Human beings dominate trees and the other animals, of course, and like all world leaders we have been at times murderous, at times protective. But these days any feeling of dominance I might have entertained has long gone, replaced...