Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time NCAA singles champ Mike Desaulniers looked as sharp as ever in his 15-10, 15-2, 15-4 dismantling of Paul Heuchling in the number one spot...
Arms flung wide, blowing kisses like confetti, Donna sashays around the stage in glittering costumes, exhorting the audience ("You are beautiful"), joshing the band, trading a little prefabricated bitchiness with her backup singers who undulate at sharp angles like clockwork Nefertitis when Donna wraps herself around a lyric. "I do not consider myself a disco artist," Donna insists, against all contrary evidence. "I consider myself a singer who does disco songs. What I like to do is expose my market to other parts of music...
...also rings up her astrologer for consultations, keeps a sharp watch on the configurations of the heavens, and divines that Capricorns like herself "are aggressive and workaholics. I am certainly a workaholic. Capricorn women also display an incredibly cold sexuality." She is quick to add, how ever, "I can't have an affair of the body without one of the mind. It's not in my morals...
...Harvard indoor track team looked sharp Saturday, skinning the Brown Bruins, 80-56, and notching a point in every event and sweeping five...
...individual histories of economic exploitation and political tampering at the hands of liberal internationalism. There is also the historical reality that state socialism has been a structural imperative in many countries. Moynihan never pauses to discuss these sorts of complexities, however; to him, the world must be seen in sharp contrasts, in terms of "us" and "them." Yet if the U.S. hopes to better promote the cause of liberal ideas in the future, it must learn to better understand these histories and experiences, in all their specificity. It is hardly likely that Moynihan, or an entire revitalized liberal elite, will...