Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walzer said this week the sharp increase in enrollment surprised him. "I gave it two years ago with about 220 students, and I don't know why there are 200 more students now than then," he said...
...sale at a lower price, rerouted pipelines originally bound for the U.S., and signed contracts with France and Canada. When the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) announced its plans to build a fence between Juarez and El Paso, which a spokesman for the construction firm said would have edges sharp enough to cut off the toes of any Mexican who tried to cross it, the Mexican government was willing "to fight to the last barb to tear the thing down," one American living in Mexico said. When the U.S. trade restrictions on Mexican goods oscillated unpredictably, Lopez Portillo voiced...
...Sharp rebuke from Stevenson...
...television "press conferences," disconcertingly reminiscent of Soviet show trials, went on nonetheless. Another victim brought out for questioning was former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida, who had been arrested by the Shah last November on assorted corruption charges. Hoveida looked ill, but more than held his own in sharp exchanges with Deputy Prime Minister Yazdi. Among other things, Hoveida made it clear to the audience that he had surrendered voluntarily to Khomeini forces after the guards of the prison where he was held had fled. "You didn't detain me," Hoveida said. "I came here voluntarily." Turning aside Yazdi...
...arid as this one has been. Of course, he has able assistance in this musical that, according to a program note, is "loosely based on the real-life relationship between the show's composer Marvin Hamlisch and its lyricist Carole Bayer Sager." Perhaps that is why the sharp crackle of humor in They 're Playing Our Song seems to emanate from a warming log fire of shared humanity...