Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trombone to achieve a breathy effect. There were prolonged single notes and furious tonal scurryings up and down the scale. Yet the Peabody Contemporary Ensemble blended it all into a fascinatingly rich texture of abstract, color-crazy sound in which dense sonic images were rent by small plinks as sharp and gleaming as broken glass...
...like a man learning to dance well without leading. There is an unslick look to him, which is good. For an announcer, he seems human-and so often announcers don't because they are too well-spoken, too well-groomed and too regular-featured." He can be sharp and funny, even at Carson's expense. Last week, when the boss muffed an imitation of John Wayne, Ed cracked: "You sound like David Brinkley." Because he is willing to jab Johnny every once in a while, he says: "I think I appeal to every guy who ever wanted...
Feiffer obviously intended to produce the blackest of comedies, but the laughs are treacherously lighthearted. What he does achieve, with the aid of a remarkably resourceful cast, is social observation that is as sharp as a shark's bite, and a highly contemporaneous sense of the unsettling transvaluation of all values...
Venomous Toad. Pope lived in a violent age. The celebrated Augustan calm was genuine marble, but it was a pavement laid over cellars where every violence flourished. Voltaire was cudgeled for his sharp tongue. Dr. Johnson was threatened by an offended duelist. Pope himself had seen his coreligionists, the Roman Catholic gentlemen of northern England, led, bound by halters, through the violent Protestant mobs of London. Such circumstances must give an edge of sincerity to satire. Pope's verses, light as dragonflies yet possessed of tempered strength, were written under the shadow of heavy penalties...
...Harvard supporters smiled winningly as sharp-shooting substitute forward Mike Janczewski sank both free throws for a 59-55 lead. John Ryzewic dropped a jumper and Joe Cook a free throw and then, as Harvard bumbled a series of sorties, Greg Pickering put in a shot over Hardy to shoot the Indians into a 60-59 lead with 1:52 on the clock. Gustavson missed a short shot, but Johnson came from nowhere to guide the rebound into the basket...