Word: sharp
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...uploading SMS-length installments to specialist websites where they are in turn downloaded to the phones of millions of readers. The most popular are printed as books and sell in the hundreds of thousands. Okiyama's first keitai shosetsu or "cell-phone novel," K, was written on her 3G Sharp handset and finished with a speed that would have left Barbara Cartland eating her literary dust. In book form, it is 235 pages long. "I think I was writing 20 pages in two hours per day at the most, and it took me almost a month," she says. "I wrote...
Even after earning three Harvard degrees, Strauss never stopped being a student as he thought up sharp lyrics and catchy tunes for the Capitol Steps...
...Added another adviser: "You're going to see some very sharp media now." That suggests the next round of Clinton ads will go beyond the previous gentle references to Obama's lack of experience and begin to look at, for instance, inconsistency in his voting record. They are looking at issues like gun control, where he previously took a harder stand that may not play well with gun-loving voters in New Hampshire, and health care, where he previously expressed support for a government-run health care system. Clinton plans to exploit every whiff of inconsistency...
...backlash against Moore got seriously underway. By that decade he was turning out biomorphic humanism by the yard, which made him susceptible to the charge of mediocre mass production. Artists like Anthony Caro, Moore's onetime studio assistant, started producing steel assemblage sculpture indebted to David Smith, blunt, sharp-edged work that made Moore's Madonnas look corny. The Minimalists rejected the references to nature and the body that were intrinsic to Moore's work. The ironies of Pop made him look all too earnest and sincere. Moore once said something to the effect that he could make any blot...
...stood and applauded, as if he had already won something. It was a welcome relief after an hour-long flight through frozen winds on rickety prop planes - one for the candidate and two for the press, including a wood-paneled antique that seated just five. It was also a sharp contrast to the cold shoulder Huckabee received from the journalistic establishment Monday, in one of the oddest press conferences in modern presidential campaign history...