Word: sharpness
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...controlled access to Nablus since the intifadeh erupted five years ago allowed Abu-Assad to film there. It was the first full-scale movie production the city had ever seen. Desperate for entertainment, residents elbowed each other for a front-row view of the daily shoots, and a few sharp locals rented plastic chairs to the crowds. Inevitably, the project also raised hackles among Palestinian paramilitaries. Feuding factions in some of the West Bank's refugee camps suspected that Abu-Assad - with an Israeli co-producer on the team - might undermine the martyrdom mystique that has enabled the intifadeh...
...give us more insight. Yet the actors in this production portray the characters skillfully, and the imaginative use of the Ex’s space helps to tie the show together. Both Brener and Shanahan are capable singers with strong energetic stage presence. Shanahan seems truly lovelorn, showing sharp but plausible shifts between wistfulness, anger, and ambivalence both through her physical acting and her emotive voice. Brener, who is more animated, counterbalances her overt sadness. Jamie is full of hubris, but he also has a charming frankness about him, and Brener’s interpretation blends both aspects...
...work for someone else," says the dapper 67-year-old. "It's a different culture, with different stakes. I felt a kind of enjoyment I couldn't get from regular work." There are thousands of other Japanese like Hagiwara, and more coming every year. JICA has seen a sharp increase in seniors volunteering to work abroad over the past decade...
Bleeding ulcers that eat all the way through the stomach lining are a serious medical condition that can be life threatening. If you experience sharp, sudden pain in the upper abdomen or have black or bloody stools or vomiting, get emergency care...
With English professor Elisa New sporting Larry Summers’s rock around campus, it looks like our foot-in-mouth University President will have a partner to help him temper his sharp and unruly tongue. Because it’s my job to worry about stuff like this, I started wondering: if Ron Howard did an “A Beautiful Mind”-style biopic on their relationship, who would play the loose-chinned economist and his poetry-reading lady love...