Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a quick end to such a quick career. The son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Hungarian father, Prinze had used his wit to survive among the teen-age toughs in the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Disarming his foes with switchblade-sharp one-liners, he avoided the fighting he hated. At the High School for Performing Arts, Prinze's ability to twit his own background-the comedic formula he never abandoned-earned him star status in the boys' room, where he would try out his routines. His ethnic-based act worked...
Unlike eukaryotes, prokaryotes ordinarily reproduce by the asexual process of cell division. Their occasional gene transfers do not show a sharp species boundary: the transfer simply becomes less efficient the greater the evolutionary separation between the donor and the recipient. Prokaryotes therefore have no true species: they have an almost continuous spectrum of genetic patterns, and the borders between what we call bacterial species are arbitrary and often controversial. E. coli, for example, is the name given to a range of strains with certain common features but also with a variety of differences, and these differences determine their relative Darwinian...
...most successful of the instrumental pieces, "Warszawa." Using piano, mini-Moog, Chamberlain and E.M.I. (don't even ask), Eno creates a work of majesty and spirituality. Medieval in feeling, with a bass drone borrowed from Russian liturgy, it is punctuated by Bowie's decent imitation of the sharp, nasal song style of Eastern Europe. You have the sense of sunlight glowing through the windows of a cathedral; gloomy, but at the same time gloriously transcendant and essentially redemptive...
...Sound and Vision" is punctuated by a sizzle reminiscent of Bowie's disco years. Bass line, mellotron and the choral vocals are all classic components of a disco arrangement, though the sounds and inspirations seem to originate elsewhere. Bowie's mellow but beautifully articulated baritone contrasts with his high sharp "rock" voice. The cut has brief moments when the musical concept seems to jell, but ultimately there is little sense of build or progression...
...allowing herself to marry a man without love," she says, "and I never came to terms with her for that reason. So I took a slight license, and I warmed up the relationship between them." Despite previous Emmy Award-winning roles in other series-as Fleur Forsyte, Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair and Sarah Churchill in The First Churchills -Hampshire, 34, was still only the third candidate for Glencora. Pauline Collins, the saucy under-houseparlormaid Sarah of Upstairs, Downstairs, demanded more money than the producers wanted to pay, and Hayley Mills, the second choice, had just had a baby...