Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp contrast to Thatcher's colorful road show, "Sunny Jim" Callaghan was waging a rather low-keyed, traditional campaign, appearing frequently at poorly attended rallies on behalf of Labor candidates for Parliament. Callaghan and his aides traveled without fanfare on an executive jet, leaving the press to catch up as best it could on whatever planes and trains were available. As a result, he was getting less national attention than the Tory leader...
These days, politics and theology no longer come up for much consideration. Questions raised in the Roches' music are decidedly personal. The songs are sharp and deceptively cool, like being stabbed by an icicle. After a while, the weapon disappears and only the wound remains. Maggie's Damned Old Dog proposes an ironic alternative to womanhood ("Do I wanna be a dog?/ any diddlin' male would do/ . . . Limpin' around in the moonlight/ coverin' up what I did"). The Married Men is a confession in cameo that cuts neatly both ways. "One says...
...attach it to the back of the TV set, much as the Bell System installs a new phone. For a monthly fee averaging $7, the viewer can watch up to 36 channels, vs. a maximum of twelve on a set wired to a rooftop antenna. The cable brings in sharp, clear pictures and often enables a viewer to pick up out-of-the-area stations that may show on, say, Wednesday night a movie he missed on the local outlets on Tuesday...
...essayist, Hardwick fashioned an authoritative style out of liberal commitment and sharp sense. As a fiction writer, she has turned the crutch of feminine sensibility into a dangerous weapon: "Actually Louisa, the young girl visitor, has just gotten quite a good job. She knows a few things and a few people. She went out early, but not too early, in black pants and a black leather coat. She put on a scarf with the name of a French designer displayed with such prominence it might have been he who was the applicant...
...That sharp contrast also impresses Pollster Ruth Clark of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, who conducted readership surveys in twelve cities, and will summarize her findings to newspaper editors at the A.S.N.E.'s annual convention in New York City this week. Clark thinks readers wanted to know not just the grisly facts and exact body counts of the Jonestown cult death in Guyana but also how the reporter felt, so they could "share his experience." Such an attitude violates all the classic instruction of crabby editors to young cub reporters not to "get in front of the story...