Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singles pretty much set the tone for the day. Coming off a serious ankle injury, number-two man Don Pompan looked rapier sharp as he disposed of Ephman Don O'Connell in straight sets...
...served in turn as the dancer's nursed and dandled baby, as an alien object enkindling fear, as the skirt in which she danced with measured delicacy or frenzied abandon, and finally as a pair of wings launching her into solipsistic flight. Through an accumulation of flawlessly-timed, needle-sharp details, Casson awakened issues of astonishing complexity: identity and mask, fantasy and madness, reality and imagination, or--as when she held the bunched skirt to her breast, moving her own mouth in the fishlike gulps of a nursing baby--the poignant tension between who we are and what we create...
...fact, the influence went a good deal deeper than that, for Steinberg's later drawings would display an exceedingly refined sense of architectural convention, of the parodies of style learned by precision rendering: the sharp, etched shadows and intricately reasoned-out facades of his dream skyscrapers on the American horizon could only have been drawn by an architectural dropout gazing with irony on his past. "You learn all the cliches of your time. My time was late cubism, via Bauhaus; our clouds came straight out of Arp, complete with a hole in the middle; even our trees were influenced...
...awareness forced under the surface, and though he does his damndest to keep the trembling from showing--until it all comes gushing out in the final scene--you can feel the subliminal tension beneath the happy-go-luckiness. I've never seen a Lemmon performance with an edge this sharp; when he is in control, it is very great acting...
Harvard suffered psychologically at the onset with an unusual floating, staggered start that "wasn't actually equal," according to varsity cox Carlos Cordeiro. The boat-staggering was necessitated by a sharp bend in the course, but Harvard managed nevertheless to get off to a smooth start...