Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annoying and absurd. Dan Deitch as Yang Sun, the unemployed flyer, just tries to do too much with his body. He contorts across the stage, face grimacing and body tensed. Everyone knows that Yang is a bastard, so Shen Te's love for him can only be based on sheer sex appeal. Deitch, by equating gruffness and stiff limbs with masculinity makes his appeal to Shen Te incomprehensible...
Moderate Tearoom. By sheer weight of numbers as well as dollars, the cavalrymen were hurting An Khe and being hurt by the uncontrolled squalor and rapacity of the riffraff. So just before things boiled over in Tet New Year roistering last January, Air Cav General Harry W. O. Kinnard stepped in and declared all of An Khe off limits to his men. Prices soon dropped back toward normal, the disease rates dipped. But the men of the Air Cav, out fighting in the jungles for weeks at a time in some of the bitterest, bloodiest battling...
...matter. Plisetskaya carried the evening with sheer fire and ardor, at one point wowed the audience by leaping and nearly kicking the back of her head with her foot. Now 40, the long-stemmed Plisetskaya is at the peak of her powers, and she is backed by an impressive stable of soloists, among them some fast-rising younger dancers who have blossomed since the troupe last appeared in the U.S. in 1962. At the end of their three-week Met engagement, the Bolshoi will set out to bring down other houses on a 13-city tour...
...Dixie prepared by two liberal groups, the nationally organized Republicans for Progress and the Yale-based Republican Advance. Their report, a product of a state-by-state survey, warned that G.O.P. organizations in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina are "lily-white," and described party support for segregationist candidates as "sheer madness...
...involvement in Viet Nam is nothing less than a diabolic Communist plot-using the old Brer Rabbit reverse psychology-to speed up Government regimentation and to push the country into "socialism and totalitarianism." The policies of the Johnson Administration, he said, are "close to insanity," amount to "sheer insanity," "approach insanity," "border on insanity," and are "nothing less than insanity." They are, in addition, he said, "dangerously insane." Welch titled his speech "A Touch of Sanity...