Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bunt singles in a movie resume as long as a Chicago Cubs season. Yet he projects such solid authority that not even junk can embarrass him. "I actually think I've been lucky," says the star who can't say no. "Working constantly not only keeps me sharp, but relieves me of the responsibility of having to perform up to a certain level if I had been waiting for the 'right' role...
...more mellifluous and -- no getting around it -- mysterious. Just like the music itself, in fact. The wonder of both Le Mystere excursions is provided by the range of the voices and the surprise of the melodies. The music sounds African, Middle European and otherworldly, like a collision around a sharp mountain turn between Peter Gabriel's score for The Last Temptation of Christ and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana...
...less conspicuous sitting down, but that is not nearly so simple as it sounds. Most of the furniture in the block-long lobby, which resembles the grand saloon of a beached ocean liner from some troubled dream, is pretty aggressive stuff. Near at hand, for instance, a pair of sharp, stainless-steel horns, curled forward like those of a fighting bull, rise improbably from the top rear edge of a medium-size white canvas cube. This contraption is placed at a chess table -- chess is a design element here -- and is evidently a sitting machine, a chair...
...offenders include toys that break into sharp pieces or contain parts that toddlers can easily choke on. Among them, according to various consumer groups: a Burger King Cheeseburger set made by Multi Toys (the plastic French fries look real and could be swallowed); Spinning Top from Ohio Art (its handle pulls off to expose a sharp metal shaft); and Medical Kit from Blue Box Toys (the plastic instruments break easily...
...radius of 30 miles, an area with a population of about 700,000. Armenian towns and cities such as Kirovakan, Stepanavan, and Leninakan were largely destroyed. Even Yerevan, 65 miles from the epicenter, suffered damage. The earthquake came in a minute-long tremor, followed four minutes later by a sharp aftershock, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale. The timing could not have been worse: at midmorning, public buildings were full of people...