Word: razor-sharp
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...quietly carted into the prison's exercise yard before dawn. The convict is aroused at 5:30 and offered a cigarette and a glass of rum. Then, bound and blindfolded, he is strapped, face down, neck bared, to the shoulder-high plank. A switch trips and the heavy, razor-sharp blade falls...
...offense will have to get its act together for today's 2 p.m. match with the Terps, who looked razor-sharp in their upset win over the host Nittany Lions...
Tasty Meadows is the setting of Lily Tomlin's latest vehicle The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a movie which, at its outset, promises to be a wicked satire of the TV age, filled with subtle humor, razor-sharp ridicule of American pop culture, and ingenious manipulation of every tiny comic detail of insipid domestic life. Unfortunately, Shrinking Woman--in its last half hour--reneges on its tacit deal with the audience, degenerating from incisive social satire to the silly comedy-adventure shenanigans of a Gene Wilder--Richard Pryor movie. Director Joel Schumacher and scriptwriter Jane Wagner let the film slowly slide...
...ROMANTIC LEADS, usually serve as mere straight-men for the comic characters. But in Yeomen Phoebe, Fairfax, and Elsie all play three-dimensional, pivotal roles, especially in this production, because both comic principals are weak. Willis Emmons turns the razor-sharp, dominating role of Jack Point into a confusingly puckish, giggly supporting player. Some of the blame falls to director Paul R. O'Neill, who evidently has encouraged Emmons to read much of his dialogue in a jarring falsetto. In addition, Martha Weiner's Act One costume for Point bares too much resemblance to the costumes for the chorus...
Indeed, as they arrived at the Army base, which is now surrounded by 11-ft. chain-link fences topped by 2-ft. coils of razor-sharp barbed wire, they were told that each would soon receive winter clothing from the Red Cross: a quilted jacket, leather shoes with crepe soles, two plaid flannel shirts, two pairs of thick jeans, gloves and a brightly colored stocking cap. They also found the authorities determined to maintain tight discipline with the help of 1,000 Army guards and 350 civilian officers, most of them from the U.S. Park Police. "El Bulevar," the black...