Word: sharpness
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...young woman who's nearly run over by a bus. Then to shots of a girls' volleyball game, their grace and strength italicized by being filmed in slow motion. All this to Antony and the Johnsons' "My Lady Story," a dreamy-sounding, gentle massage of a ballad with scalpel-sharp lyrics ("My lady's story / Is one of annihilation... / I'm a hole in love / I'm a bride on fire / I am twisted / Into a starve of wire...
...their message of hatred and intolerance to a global audience. In the same week that neo-Nazis in East Berlin are suspected of attacking a member of Parliament who is of Kurdish origin - and who remains hospitalized after suffering a concussion - German police released a national report documenting a sharp increase in the number of crimes committed by far-right groups over the past year. And this comes after a dire "no go" warning, issued earlier this month by a former government spokesman who now heads an anti-racism advocacy group, that if people "with different color skin" travel...
...section of Opelousas, La. Miles A. Johnson ’08, a social studies concentrator, spoke of going to Cuba on a high school academic program—an experience that transformed his views on race relations. In Cuba, he said, “there’s no sharp division” between blacks and whites. The students also signed books for the intimate crowd after their speeches. “There was something at the core of each essay which is the same regardless of circumstances,” Green said. The scholars said they remain committed...
...ultra-low rates that the Fed adopted following the crash of U.S. markets in 2000. But in the last two years, the Fed has increased rates an unprecedented 16 times, so real estate-driven consumption is at best yesterday's news. Tomorrow's story will be the sharp fall in U.S. growth as consumers face higher mortgage costs. Real estate prices will fall, and access to credit will tighten across the board. This dynamic could become particularly nasty given the record level of household and public-sector debt, and the U.S.'s massive external liabilities. Investor consensus is frequently wrong...
...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts.That’s the secret, really. Don’t write out “TIME!!!” in inch-high scrawl—it only brings out the sadist in us. Don?...