Word: sharpness
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...does Van Allen remain so creative and sharp? His wife Abbie credits his lifelong, intense focus on his work. "He can hardly wait to get up in the morning and go to his office," she says. "He has so many ideas, he realizes that the time is short, and he worries that he won't get all his ideas written up." That leaves little time to socialize, and Van Allen confines his outside activities to monthly meetings of the Club, an Iowa City men's discussion group, and to occasional travel, during which he and Abbie visit their five children...
...thing built. Libeskind, 56, was named the winner last week of the extraordinarily hard fought and closely watched competition for a design to rebuild the World Trade Center site. Now the real work begins: financing a scheme that includes a museum and five office buildings, working with the sharp-elbowed assortment of public authorities and private parties who lay claim to the site and keeping the plan from being nibbled to death by changes. How much of it will actually be built? If you want to make God laugh, the saying goes, tell him your plans...
...ones?his take on the Timberland boot, the Tims (picture a suede work boot with a four-inch heel; now picture it on Jennifer Lopez); and the subversive ones?his personal favorite is a shoe of steel, aluminum and titanium that never made it to production because the razor-sharp heel could pierce someone's hand. Creations like these make women fanatically loyal to Blahnik...
...Martin said. “It says basically we’re not just looking at the kids from Exeter and the prep schools in New England—we’re looking at schools from all over, we’ll take talented and sharp kids whether they’re from New York City or Hialeah...
...This sharp wit is never out of reach for Colson Whitehead; it was apparent in his lecture as he followed up a forceful reading of Public Enemy’s “I Can’t Do Nothin’ For You Man” by deconstructing it to the delight of the well-read audience...