Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie isn't handsome or measured or seamless -- the very notion of a well-made film would offend the director's antiaesthetic -- but once it gets revved up, Cry-Baby is keen fun from the onetime Belial of Baltimore. From now on, Hollywood, that's Mr. Waters...
...never been shy about speaking out. "I would rather be compared to Patti Smith than anybody," she says. "I don't want to be compared to people like Suzanne Vega, because I don't like wishy-washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen about rap, reggae and Michael Jackson ("He's a doll, he's a god") and is open as a wound about the lacerating Irish upbringing from which many of her lyrics spring ("I'm walking through the desert/ And I am not frightened although it's hot/ I have all that...
...task of gathering many of the items and tracking down the accuracy of the section falls to reporter-researcher David Ellis. Known to colleagues as "Mr. Insider," Ellis has a keen ear for odd information and irreverent observation and is a storehouse of facts about the famous and infamous. He fondly recalls, for example, that Jimi Hendrix had a disastrous turn as an opening act for the Monkees in 1967. As comfortable with sports trivia as he is with political arcana, Ellis considers 1972 a noteworthy year because a New York Yankee (Rich McKinney) made four errors in one game...
Suzanne P. Keen, an English graduate student, commenting on the possible flight of five junior professors from the department...
...dismissing El Comandante just yet. "Castro is charismatic, even if his popularity has eroded some," says Smith. "It could be argued that he would win an open election even today." The "maximum leader" maintains his high favor by constantly mixing with ordinary folks, thereby cultivating a keen sense of popular sentiment. Observes a senior Cuban official: "He is not like Honecker and Ceausescu, who lost touch with their people." And unlike the communist regimes imposed on Eastern Europe after World War II, Castro's revolution was a homegrown affair that quickly attracted the support of most Cubans...