Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AUGUST 9, 1976--the second anniversary of the Great Fall--brought with it Nixon's Revenge. That was when a positively inconsiderate little hurricane named Belle came boiling up out of the Caribbean, hung a sharp left at Cape Hatteras, and barged up the East coast, cancelling countless resignation parties with her homicidal winds and warm monsoon rains. But for those who sat smack in the storm's path, Belle set the stage for a very different sort of party...
Petrovek finished with about twice as many saves as goals against him (figure it out yourself), while Napier picked up 21 in a sharp performance...
...supporters, Bob has had to pull it off pretty much on his own; his secretary Carol, brother Howard, and friend Jerry are the sort of boring eccentrics that you hope will never try to make conversation with you. But Newhart is something different; his cool, understated humor stands in sharp contrast to the abrasive style that dominates most of t.v. comedy. This week, Bob confronts Mr. Death...
...hereditarians have nevertheless continued and even stepped up their activities. In the recent Annual Review of Genetics (1976), a long article on "genetics of cognitive behavior" favorably reviews a segment of the large and growing literature on genetic bases of inequality, and repeatedly attacks Richard Lewontin for his sharp criticisms of the I.Q. studies...
...daily Style section takes itself less seriously than does the Times in its cultural coverage; but then in Washington there is less to take seriously, even if you add in the Kennedy Center and the Hirshhorn Museum. The Style section's reportorial star is Sally Quinn, who with sharp eyes and a mischievous ear is expert at waylaying visiting notables. (The Times had in Charlotte Curtis a reporter with a wicked gift for deadpan reporting of society's banalities, but instead put her in charge of the increasingly cumbersome Op-Ed page...