Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moving on to Nepal's embassy, Chen got even more excited. "Sheer drivel!" he cried when asked about U.S. demands that Communist guerrilla attacks in South Viet Nam be stopped. "There will be no peace in Indo-China," prophesied Chen, "so long as the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism hang on there." Later, Chen told a touring Swiss journalist: "The Chinese people will not stand idly by as North Viet Nam is attacked. China and North Viet Nam go together like teeth and lips...
...publishers' mutual decision to lop off two Sunday-evening issues a month was prompted by sheer necessity. The papers were simply running low on boypower. The supply of newsboys who plod their routes day after day is declining along with the country's population, and the press is confronted with a chronic and growing shortage of young carriers. To compound the problem, the newsboys, less than satisfied with an average take of $13 a month, have been steadily defecting for better pay elsewhere in the country's boom economy...
ZORBA THE GREEK. The hell, the horror and the sheer animal delight of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are served up larger than life by Director Michael Cacoyannis, with Anthony Quinn magnificently cast as the goatish old Greek who butts his way through a series of disasters...
Boxes & Coffee Grinders. One of Duchamp's newfound admirers, Pop Painter Jasper Johns, likes to remind scoffers of the cartoon caption, "O.K. So he invented fire-but what did he do after that?" In terms of sheer production, Duchamp is but a pint-sized Prometheus. His lifelong catalogue lists only 208 works. He once miniaturized all of his work that he thought worthwhile, and packaged this portable museum in dispatch cases (200 of them were sold). But as his current exhibition at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom gallery* gives ample proof, his work struck the sparks that set others...
Confident now, Nash turned on the speed. Plunging straight down the chute, he ripped into the 180° Horseshoe Corner, swung high on its sheer wall, then dropped surely down to the narrow, slotted straightaway to pick up extra speed. His time for the run: a course record, 1 min. 16.94 sec. But Nash was not through. On his last run he sliced another .03 sec. off his own record...