Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before. The girls weren't impressed. But an old man came up and told him, "I remember you when you were here last time." "It was very touching for him," Laura says. "It made him want to weep." He had always figured he had more in common with blunt, sharp-eyed Barbara Bush. "I've got a lot of my mother in me," he says. But at that moment, he surely was his father...
Blondes Prefer Gentlemen, Brunettes Too--Redheads Included! 1949 "What kind of girl do you have in mind?...someone who's a cross between June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor...a gal with a sharp sense of humor, neatly stacked...
...funny and imperiled. I don't think audiences ever particularly identify with Marilyn. They may love her or fear for her, but mostly they simply marvel at her existence, at the delicious unlikeliness of such platinum innocence. She's the bad girl and good girl combined: she's sharp and sexy yet incapable of meanness, a dewy Venus rising from the motel sheets, a hopelessly irresistible home wrecker. Monroe longed to be taken seriously as an artist, but her work in more turgid vehicles, like The Misfits, was neither original nor very interesting. She needs the tickle of cashmere...
...Above all, predictability is a virtue," Knowles says. "I want to avoid sharp changes in tuition from year to year...
...example, at Princeton a committee that includes students, faculty, administrators and staff--in sharp contrast to Harvard empowering Knowles, subject to approval by the corporation--determines the rate, taking numerous factors into account...