Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pasquale, has a full performance schedule through 1980. She will cut back. But some promises may be impossible to break, such as the San Diego Opera premiere next June of a new opera written for her by Gian Carlo Menotti. Sills has little administrative experience, but she has a sharp, well-organized mind. During the past seven months, she has spent every free moment trailing the City Opera managing director. Says she: "I have learned everything: how subscriptions work, how to read cash-flow statements, what makes the company tick. My head is so full of plans and ideas that...
...that the Shah must go before anything else can be discussed. One such moderate mullah is Abdul Reza Hejazi, 42, who has suddenly become a political figure of some importance. "At the moment," said Hejazi, surrounded by rich red Persian carpets in his Tehran living room, which provided a sharp contrast to his severe black robe and turban, "one side is shooting and the other is screaming. We must find a way to create a cease-fire to give the Shah a chance to prove what he is promising." In the long run, Hejazi believes, the Shah might stay...
...plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard. His theme is betrayal, not so much of the American dream as of the inner health of the nation. He focuses on that point at which the spacious skies turned ominous with clouds of dread, and the amber waves of grain withered in industrial blight and moral...
Shortly after 11 a.m. Copertini heard several sharp noises. "I had an awful feeling," she said later. "I went over to the window and looked out, thinking they were shots, but hoping they weren't." At that moment, Deputy Mayor Rudy Nothenberg arrived for an 11 a.m. appointment with Moscone. Nothenberg looked in the mayor's office, did not see him, and walked into the small rear room. He saw the mayor lying on the floor, his head facing downward between the couch and a coffee table, his body bleeding badly...
Paced by the sharp shooting of Dave Kohn and Billy Campbell, the Crimson made 19 of 25 from the free throw line in the contest...