Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When you're changing the content of a paper," says O'Neill, "it's important not to jar readers too much." The News continues to give big play to the handiwork of its 60 full-time photographers, some of whom still have a sharp lens for bikinied beauties. Says O'Neill: "We take pictures seriously." Girls, too. Said the headline on a story about New York Governor Hugh Carey's recent dinner dates with divorcee Anne Ford Uzielli: IS GUV IN LUV? IT'S NO DODGE, IT'S A FORD...
...weak Miss Lonelyhearts tilts the balance of the play in Shrike's favor, and Lorenzo Mariani as the sharp-talking features editor makes the most of it. Poor Miss Lonelyhearts never really stands a chance. Mariani's magnificent presence and resonant voice dominate the stage, as he enunciates West's vision in a way that mixes cynicism with sense. Especially fine is Mariani's handling of Shrike's monologue, in which he relentlessly demonstrates to a bed-ridden Miss Lonelyhearts the futility of traditional means of escape...
...that changed last week as 255 bishops, at the church hierarchy's 1975 meeting in Washington, D.C., approved a new anti-abortion strategy, a "Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities." The plan marks a sharp shift from uncoordinated, at times strident opposition to abortion to a more reasoned and concerted attack on it. The bishops not only called for a parish-to national-level effort by Catholics but ventured into new territory. They proposed the formation of interdenominational "prolife" groups in all 435 congressional districts to fight for an amendment overturning the court's 1973 decision...
Crimson mentor Tom Sanders was not at all pleased with his squad's opening game performance. "Clemson was a fairly good team but we did not play good basketball at all," he said. "You can call it first-game jitters, but we were simply not at all sharp...
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