Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ease. Her performance is the most compelling in the show. From the giddy drunken beginnings when it appears that the peroxided Honey has a mind-wrenching hysteria of the third act, Bond uses her body and voice to convey an infinite variety of shaded feelings. At times, when the sheer terro of reality rushes in on her, Bond's performance is almost too painful to watch. When Honey rushes off stage, sickened by alcohol and unable to endure the destructive games, our revulsion is almost as strong as hers. The one unfortunate aspect of Bond's performance is that...
...Sheer coincidence, said White House aides: Carter just happened to receive right then assurances from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi that the expanded aid would actually get through to hungry Cambodians. Well, maybe. But Carter's whole week demonstrated that he is acutely aware of the powers of an incumbent President and determined to use them in his contest with Kennedy for the Democratic nomination. Some other samples of his new assertiveness...
...sign-outs, with some saying that the public ledger would enforce morality (defined as not sleeping with a man), while others maintained it was a harbinger of a tight-reined past. Rosenblum says she cannot remember anyone considering sign-outs a moral issue. "We all thought it was sheer authoritarianism," she adds. Finally in the fall of 1969, the parietals and signouts suddenly disappeared...
...ultimate challenge to the Fed's bold new initiative is, of course, the sheer virulence of the nation's inflationary malaise. In the short run, skyrocketing interest rates will just make the plague worse, since rising interest simply pushes up the cost of money. In fact, the new boost in rates makes it even more certain that the actual amount of inflation this year will far exceed the Administration's official forecast; it still maintains that the rise in prices for all of 1979 will be no more than...
...partner and costar, Ann Miller. When haven't we missed her long, lithesome legs? The years have left them far sounder than most currencies. Her taps are tops, routines done with effortless style and sophisticated rhythms. Do we miss burlesque, which forms the substance of Sugar Babies (if sheer fluff has substance)? Not so much, admittedly, for its cornball bag of tricks as for its relaxed mental climate, its absolution from thought. We relish its tipsy humors, its panting satyrs and bird-brained nymphs, who pursue each other with a strangely pagan innocence...