Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cycle. Shawn points out that when he began, "dance choreography was predominantly feminine; it was like music with nothing but strings and woodwinds. It needed the brasses and drums of the male role." So in 1933 he set out to supply them. Picking his first all-male crew for sheer muscle-they included football players, trackmen, gymnasts-he installed them at Jacob's Pillow, a rundown, 150-acre 18th century farmstead he had bought three years before. There each summer he honed the troupe with dancing all morning, farm chores all afternoon. "I wanted to see," he says...
Another rude awakening for transatlantic visitors is America's sheer size. French travel agents have learned to make a point of telling their clients that the U.S. is 171 times bigger than France, but still they are repeatedly disappointed to learn that a morning is not enough to visit the Grand Canyon from Denver or that a horseback ride across Arizona would be no fun at all. The insular English are forever making appointments for lunch in Boston to be followed by dinner in Phoenix and then wondering what all the rush is about...
...Manhattan headquarters were inconvenient for the two-thirds of its employees who already lived in New York's northern suburbs, and seven of its eleven divisions were already located in suburban Westchester. But such practical arguments seem minor compared with the sheer esthetic appeal of the new three-story glass-and-concrete headquarters quadrangle, which would cover a square block in Manhattan. The building rises near an apple orchard on a 443-acre estate, surrounds picturesque Japanese gardens in a courtyard designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
...effect. He yearns wistfully in a large, throaty voice for girls "with skin as white as cream." Or, as in 'Colorful," he stands smirking with his hands poised effeminately and spits out in a jazzy, mocking voice, "As the Duchess of Windsor might say, Black is me." The sheer force of Davis's personality hides his and the script's failure to create a complete character...
...this week's meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Cairo. Tshombe knew he had many enemies in the 34 African states comprising the O.A.U., but felt he could win sympathy from the group's conservative members and hold his own with the rest through the sheer force of his considerable personal charm...