Word: sharpness
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...skillswent into the countryside, and this flood of light somehow entered his work." With darkness by its side, as Updike well understands. He takes art seriously. For more than 20 years he has been producing a good-size body of art criticism, reviews full of nuance and sharp eyesight. Once an aspiring cartoonist, he majored in English at Harvard but studied afterward at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford. His first wife was a painter, and on their return to the U.S., he tried painting too, until he realized how hard...
...year, just about the only thing going smoothly in Germany's economy right now is music sales. A savage single satirizing Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, The Tax Song, soared toward No. 1, selling over 300,000 copies since its release. The song is part of a wave of sharp criticism that the government has faced since announcing a series of tax increases and benefit cuts only weeks after the general election. Last week members of the Green Party, who are in coalition with Schröder's Social Democrats, revolted as parliament passed a controversial bill raising pension-insurance...
...boost oil production.” There are serious risks, moreover, that a war could lead to the devastation of many petroleum-rich fields, or that Hussein could torch his own reserves before he is conquered. At the very least, a pre-emptive U.S.-U.K. assault might cause a sharp spike in oil prices. It seems curious to argue, then, that Bush’s Iraq policy is compelled solely by the lure of petrodollars...
...work with some very sharp colleagues,” he said...
...Laurie MacDonald, a production boss for Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks, saw the film last year and quickly bought remake rights for $1 million?just a bit less than the original movie's budget. Her instinct proved sharp. The new Ring is the rare Hollywood horror movie that earned more money in its third weekend ($18 million) than its first ($15 million)?a testament to enthusiastic word of mouth. The film may generate its own sequel. Insiders are already whispering the sacred word "franchise...