Word: sharpness
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Ramsey was also known for a sharp, yet personal dressing style...
...dissent was sharp. "The particular testing program upheld today is not reasonable, it is capricious, even perverse," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the minority. How, the dissent wondered, will a line ever be drawn between students who may be tested and those who may not? That line may never be drawn, says Perry. This decision means schools can in essence test for drugs in any student they want...
...sharp about-face, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a 1989 decision Thursday, ruling 6-3 that the execution of mentally retarded prisoners is cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore unconstitutional. The decision is loaded with implications - political as well as legal. The majority opinion, written by Justice John Paul Stevens, described the changing landscape of American opinion on the subject, citing numerous state legislatures that have outlawed the practice. Dissenting from the majority were Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who penned a scathing rebuttal to their colleagues' opinion. The three judges have expressed frequent...
...section of "Voyage," Scorsese says this about women in the world of Fellini and his alter-ego hero, the movie director Guido: "He can love them, he can use them, he can ignore or worship them. But he can't control them." This is a sharp observation, but not quite so passionately expressed as his remarks about Guido's difficulty in getting his next film started - the subject of "8-1/2": "In order to make the movie you want to make, you need time. But that's the hardest thing to find when you're a filmmaker." Scorsese...
STONE GARDEN They look masterminded. In the Pinnacles Desert, thousands of soaring spires rise from shifting yellow sands like some antipodean Stonehenge. Dutch explorers sailing along the coast in the 16th century spied these jagged sharp-edged columns and tombstone-like pillars from their ships and concluded that the formations were evidence of some ancient civilization. They were wrong. The Pinnacles are another of Western Australia's natural wonders, and perhaps its most photographed...