Word: sharping
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...Best Revival, Play Two good choices: The Homecoming, a sharp Pinter revival, and a great, grisly new Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart (my pick). What I really want to do is vote against Boeing Boeing, an inane sex farce up for far too many awards...
...boggled by Clinton, impressed and appalled by him. The only real differences we had in 30 years of friendship were over his treatment of both Clintons, which I thought was occasionally too sharp - and had its roots, I believed, in the strict lessons about sex and probity he'd learned from the nuns (which he often joked about). Our last conversation, sadly, was an argument over that...
...January. The spike - coupled with galloping consumer price inflation in general and a slumping U.S. economy - is contributing to fears that an era of remarkable economic growth, particularly in developing countries such as India, may be drawing to a close. One ominous sign: stock markets throughout the region suffered sharp declines following a record one-day surge in oil prices of more than $10 a barrel on June 6; China's Shanghai stock market plunged 7.7% on June 10, its steepest drop in a year. While investors and economists are worried about a number of economic headwinds, rising oil prices...
...straddles the border between the wealthy neighborhood of Brookline and the poorer areas of Roxbury and Dorchester, and Ludwig's patients--black, white, Hispanic--are drawn from around the city. Ludwig's unique weight-control program focuses on the glycemic index of his patients' diets, attempting to reduce the sharp ups and downs in blood-sugar levels that he believes encourage children to overeat. That means cutting back severely on the highly processed carbohydrates that make up the backbone of the diet of too many kids. A first-time trip to the clinic includes a visit with a nutritionist...
...Odinga also blamed the continent's ethnic conflicts on the "mediocrity of African leadership." Even the mild-mannered President of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza, struck a sharp note, hitting out at the practice, still widespread among African men, of taking multiple wives and siring hordes of children. Jacob Zuma, tipped to be the next President of South Africa, listened calmly. He boasts four wives and at least 18 children...