A little boy who disappears from his beautiful eyes for minutes, or hours, or days or months on end with no warning, with no reason, and becomes someone cold, fierce, frightening and frightened.
What the avant-garde writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha called the dream of the audience remains, even for someone as fierce and fearless as she was.
Like her undeclared opponent, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mrs. Clinton is someone who inspires fierce devotion in some people and loathing in the rest, including a good part of the undecided voters.
What makes "6 Feet Beneath the Moon" satisfying isn't a sense of bravura or the impression of someone with a single, fierce vision.
I wonder if her expression was that of someone torn between a fierce desire to express herself and an equally strong impulse to run away?
"This is someone who had a fierce determination to live, but who was not afraid to die," said Representative Bill Delahunt, a Democrat and a Kennedy friend whose district includes Cape Cod.
The project got off to a shaky start when pre-publicity, suggesting it would be "thrilling" to walk in someone else's shoes, aroused fierce protest: the show's creators sincerely, and rightly, apologised for use of that term.
Unfortunately Mr. Koenig did not reprise his unexpectedly fierce covers of "Someone's Gonna Die Tonight," by Blitz, and "Parents," by Descendents, from the recent 12-hour marathon show at which he was a guest of a Canadian punk band with an unprintable name.
So why does someone who is such a fierce competitor take a step down from being in with a solid chance of gold for the likelihood of finishing outside the medals at an event which is not even his speciality?
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet [Mulaha] was very fierce, very definite, like someone accustomed to giving orders, also like a small bird with fixed ideas.
