Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems that in the past sixty years our culture has taken such a sharp turn that the problem in England and the United States lies in a re-interpretation of our own culture--Milton's milieu or earlier--a culture almost as foreign to us as the Greeks or Romans were to our literary fore-bearers...
...Feiffer's first full-length play, about a family living in a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence and violated privacy, still seems a series of animated cartoons spliced together rather than an organic drama. Director Alan Arkin and a resourceful cast do, however, achieve some razor-sharp social observation...
...talk. When he emerges from the wings to perform, it is not with the elegant stride of a Milstein or the open-armed warmth of a Stern. It is with a rapid, open-toed, Chaplinesque shuffle. When Zukofsky plays, his music often consists of a series of brash scrapes, sharp squeaks and galloping glissandos that Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky never dreamed of. Sometimes, it seems that he is a man who cares little for the usual trappings of success...
...though myth-shattering experts agree that Revere was no better than other Boston silversmiths of his day. A three-piece Revere tea set was sold for $70,000 last year, up from about the $30,000 it was traded for only five years earlier. Says Kevin Tierney, 26, the sharp-eyed Irish appraiser that Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries imported a year ago to smarten up its silver department: "You've no idea what that ride has done for Revere's trade...
...assignment. He later worked on network-wide documentaries and panel shows in London and spent a year as a CBS correspondent. His credits include a film report from Albania and an uneven essay on the "vulgarity" of Texas. In a preview of the sort of sharp commentary he delivered last week, he described Texas as "a land without style, a confused and chaotic society" obsessed with guns. Now he is also managing director of three suburban London weeklies acquired by his father...