Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pretty Sharp...
AFRENZIED Sherlock Holmes opens his door a crack and peers out at Dr. Watson with sharp, glittering eyes. Years of heavy cocaine consumption have finally taken their toll; Holmes is paranoid, obsessed with the belief that his arch-enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure...
Petrovek was sharp for most of the game, turning away 30 shots while Craig was kicking out 34. The senior was dented twice in the second period, however, when the Terriers put together a power play score and a breakaway in the space of little over one minute...
...Sharp Cutbacks. He obviously likes both. A graduate of the Harvard architectural school, in 1970 he grandly opened the Kenneth Walker Design Group-consisting of himself-to do graphics and interior projects. To get more work, he merged two years later with the established architectural office of the Grad Partnership, forming Walker/Grad Inc. By then, however, the recession was causing such sharp cutbacks in new construction that few jobs were to be had. But Walker noticed that retailers kept on building new stores and remodeling old ones. He broke into the then staid field by refurbishing the shoe department...
...thick, solitary splendor of the movie studio, Monroe Stahr weaves dreams. He watches images flicker by in the screening room, demands improvement. Amendments, modifications, excisions-all flow in the sharp, regular rhythm of a master musician keeping time by snapping his fingers. "The last scene was too gory-cut out one roll of the table," or, "Reshoot the whole scene." His taste is peerless, but it would have to be. The production chief of a major studio like MGM in the early '30s, Stahr holds absolute authority...