Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deep and abiding interest" in reaching agreements on arms control, trade and other issues with the U.S. Western analysts, and diplomats generally, agree that the dispute over human rights resembles a skirmish on a long cease-fire line. Says one Kremlin watcher: "There does seem to be a fairly sharp distinction between this kind of tit-for-tatism and issues like SALT...
...makes the usual jokes while you frantically try to remember just what in hell the War of Jenkins' Ear was. It's not the idea of comic relief that bothers you, it's those awful jokes. Black humor, more than any other type of humor, has to be very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify it as absurd; yet as a very definite part of human nature. Notable examples of this sort of humor/social commentary are Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut...
...name in the Los Angeles Times sports page. Me on the same page as Jerry West. Heaven. It was a box score for a 7th grade basketball tournament typed in the microscopic print developed especially for insurance policies. But who cared; I was young and had sharp eyes and anyway there it was, "Baggott...
SOMETIME IN the early 1850s, a young, sharp-witted Paris aristocrat, more or less in training to take over the family banking business, declared to his father that he planned to cast aside the family expectations and enroll full time in an art studio. He had been frittering away his university career sketching copies of the masters in the Louvre, and had cultivated a special passion for the work of Ingres, the skillful draftsman whose flawless style dominated the fifties' neo-classical vogue...
There is an engagingly sinister quality about Trudeau's sharp features, just the faint whiff of Mephistopheles presiding over a steaming cauldron. But he was mellow that day. Jimmy Carter had asked Trudeau to advise him as he moved into the murky world of international politics. "Now he's asked you and 215 million Americans," chortled a guest. Trudeau chuckled. Yes, Carter might have been trying to flatter him. That was often done in this business. But Trudeau's conclusion was that Carter was sincere. Carter, insisted the Prime Minister, was a man obviously at ease with...