Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Colleagues say Samp has brought to municipal government both a passion for elections and a keen knowledge of detail...
...Gran Scena's brand of burlesque may owe much to Mel Brooks and the Marx Brothers, not to mention the late drag master Charles Ludlam. But it is also clearly an inside job--the work of connoisseurs who, even in falsetto and falsies, have a keen understanding of the magnificent excess that makes this art form so compelling...
...Gran Scena's brand of burlesque may owe much to Mel Brooks and the Marx Brothers, not to mention the late drag master Charles Ludlam. But it is also clearly an inside job -- the work of connoisseurs who, even in falsetto and falsies, have a keen understanding of the magnificent excess that makes this art form so compelling...
...David Keen, bullet manufacturer, extolling his "Black Rhino" ammunition
That interest remained keen after Burton moved back to Hong Kong to take up a regional reporting beat that entails travel from Islamabad to Borneo, from Rangoon to the disputed Spratly Island of Layang Layang. With the collaboration of current TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz and correspondent Mia Turner, Burton kept current on the Chinese environmental saga, and the Three Gorges piece, which appears in this issue, is the result...