Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pawn" of some reactionary forces at Harvard, he really doesn't know what he's talking about and ought to hold his peace. And Mr. Howard's additional charge that my views have "undue weight" and are "accepted as authoritative on black issues at Harvard" is sheer figment of his imagination...
Call it genius, self-indulgence or sheer creative ebullience, but Jean-Luc Godard makes his movies like a kid with his first camera. He follows where the camera leads rather than vice versa, with the result that irrelevancies abound, digressions sprout further digressions, and good sight gags are run into the ground by repetition. Godard's pictures are often so visually rewarding, however, that he gets away with a lot of nose-thumbing at audiences...
...Recorded last April in Cleveland with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, this set often finds the Soviet pianist more in a mood to polish his tone than to push Beethoven's cause. The concertos are all neatly and expertly done, but they rarely express the excitement, abandon and sheer joy of the music. Gilels does better in the three sets of solo variations that constitute the sidefillers; the 32 Variations in C Minor is especially notable for its logic and rhythmic verve. But as a whole, this ambitious undertaking does not live up to the talent or reputation...
...fact, I've started off by basically disliking every opera that I've done so far. They all seemed like such old salami." But as he began thinking about it, he became fascinated with the prospect of doing Faust as a grim Gothic tale in which sheer horror and grizzly humor intertwine. He decided to introduce Mephistopheles in different guises that would fit credibly into each scene. After materializing first as a cadaver, the Devil appears later as a gypsy fortuneteller, then Don Juan, then a soldier of fortune. Next, Corsaro threw out the lurid, last-act Walpurgisnacht...
...Denver and 145% in Miami. In such metropolitan areas as Boston, Atlanta, Houston and front-running Dallas, more apartments are now going up than one-family houses. That condition has long prevailed in New York City, whose prosaic brick or concrete residential towers command attention mostly by sheer size. The current behemoth is Co-Op City, a 15,400-apartment complex now rising on the site of a former swamp in The Bronx. Both in and out of New York, the quality of construction often leaves something to be desired; many builders admit that noise traveling through thin walls...