Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Speaker on Jan. 7, and the ethics committee is scrambling to finish its work before that. While Gingrich's admission on Saturday--essentially a guilty plea to violations uncovered by the ethics committee's four-panel subcommittee--was clearly an attempt to speed the process, it also reflected a sharp, sudden change of course from his earlier insistence that he did nothing wrong...
Hearing about the violence Kay endured can seem almost surreal to those at a distance from her life. To those in the middle of it all, though, the abuse has an almost everyday quality about it. Kay's daughter Amanda, 14, a pretty girl with a sharp sense of humor, refers blithely to the time "when Daddy kidnapped us," and remembers going to bed with her shoes on so she could run to the neighbors for help. "I got used to the hitting part," Mandy says, "but what I hated was when he spit in her face or slung food...
...will pull together is hard to tell. For instance, Albright leans toward military action, Lake leans against it, and Cohen insists on consulting Congress first. And Albright makes no bones about her love of the limelight, Cohen is a maverick with a stubborn streak, and Lake is known for sharp elbows...
This production marks the 40th anniversary of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan players, and perhaps it is the collective club excitement that the polish of the show exudes. Down to the details of a sharp poster and a clever program which imitates the style of the operetta's 1879 debut, "The Pirates of Penzance" demonstrates a real love on the part of the participants. It's musical theater that does what it's supposed to: entertainment which immediately, and without cessation, entertains...
...ripostes, but he lacks finesse. Luckily, a sympathetic doctor agrees to sponsor him at court, and so Gregoire's education begins. Voltaire is the God of Versailles, and his works are its Bible. Through the doctor, Gregoire learns the rules underlying the smooth facade of verbal exchanges. "Be witty, sharp and malicious," is the basic idea, but he must never laugh at his own jokes. A good jab can make him the talk of the court, but unfortunately, so can a bad one. We see the doctor agonizing the next day about a comeback that he had jumbled the night...