Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California; now he virtually proclaimed Journalism Day. He put the press conference off for two hours because some out-of-state reporters had been delayed by bad weather. Afterward he held a reception for newsmen. All the while, he was proving himself capable of supplying answers that were sharp but not gratuitously abrasive, as they often were in the old days. Nixon may make some mistakes in the months to come, but he is unlikely to repeat those of campaigns past...
...Steelmakers stand to benefit from any upturn in Detroit, and they sorely need some such boost. Hurt by competition from foreign imports and the cost of new equipment, most steel companies suffered sharp earnings declines in 1967. Net income of U.S. Steel, the industry leader, dropped 31%, to $172,499,331 on sales of $4.07 billion. While that decline was a year-long affair, several rival steelmakers-including Bethlehem, Republic and Inland-showed fourth-quarter profit increases as customers started stockpiling in anticipation of a possible steel strike next summer. Other metals companies, among them Kaiser Aluminum and Reynolds Metals...
...good lies in Leone's camera work-expertly combining color and composition, with sharp attention to the details of shape and texture that are available when shooting on location rather than on studio sets. Bad is the word for the wooden acting, and Leone's addiction to the cramped values and stretched probabilities of the comic strip. And ugly is his insatiable appetite for beatings, disembowelings and mutilations, complete with closeups of mashed-in faces and death-rattle sound effects...
What saved the week was a BBC dramatization of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, carried by 35 U.S. public TV channels. Thanks in large part to authentic exteriors shot in India and an impeccable cast headed by Dame Sybil Thorndike, this was as sharp a TV drama as U.S. audiences have seen all season...
...critic, he was formidable, engaging his peers in bitter polemics. He preferred Robert Bridges to T. S. Eliot, once called Ezra Pound "a barbarian loose in a museum." His own poetry, for which he won Yale's 1960 Bollingen Prize, was a mirror of the man, cool, sharp, diamond-hard, as in his definition of his work...