Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amsterdam's "Night of the Pig." Stripped naked, 200 freshmen are jammed so closely into a room that they can scarcely move, and a small pig, bloated with laxatives, is tossed into their midst. The nauseated freshmen often trample the terrified beast to death in sheer self-defense...
Paying the Price. Ironically, Los Angeles' indifferent newspaper readers also stand to benefit from the loss of two papers. In the last ten months, the fat and lethargic Times, which had the habit of substituting sheer bulk for journalistic merit, has begun to show new life. It is even bulkier than before, but it is a far better newspaper. The Times has beefed up its Washington coverage and joined hands with the Washington Post in the organization of a news service. It has also added four fulltime political editors, two of them stolen from Hearst. Foreign coverage has grown...
Edmund Haines: Concertino for Seven Solo Instruments and Orchestra (Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra, Guy Fraser Harrison conducting; Composers Recordings, Inc.). A high-spirited, multi-gaited piece that has its moments of surrealist shiftiness and of sheer pyrotechnics. One movement-the third-stands out with a lovely, brooding string solo. Expertly rendered by the first-desk men of the orchestra...
...this protein,, which then flows to lymphatic collection points. Biggest of these, in the abdomen, is the cisterna chyli. Others are in the chest. Through large lymph channels-notably the thoracic duct-the protein returns to the blood stream. Most surprising, Dr. Mayerson and fellow researchers found, is the sheer volume that the lymphatics handle. In the dog, and probably in man, the kidneys' lymphatics process a volume of fluid almost equal to the kidneys' output of urine...
...Sharing this diabolic conversation pit are a younger faculty couple who start as passively trapped bystanders and finish as guilty fellow victims. In the long and lacerating annals of family fights on stage, there has been nothing quite like Virginia Woolf's mortal battle of the sexes for sheer nonstop grim-gay savagery. The human heart is not on view, but the playgoer will know that he has seen human entrails...