Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugee tragedy is most pressing in Southeast Asia, partly because the sheer numbers are too great for nearby countries to handle, partly because the largest body of exiles are victims of the cynical, racist policies of the Hanoi government. The Vietnamese refugees, most of them ethnic Chinese, are leaving their homeland at the rate of 65,000 a month-and their departure is enriching the Hanoi government...
...Soviet Union, to see this great subject treated in such depth. It is designed, in the words of the catalogue, as "the last panel of the triptych" of exhibitions illustrating the relationships between Paris and three modernist capitals: New York (1977), Berlin (1978) and Moscow. The sheer size of the Soviet loan-some 2,000 works in all media, from paintings to agitprop posters, from architectural drawings to teacups and chess sets-put the center's director, Pontus Hulten, at a disadvantage in bargaining. The Russian side of the show is wholly chosen and catalogued by Soviet experts, whose...
Whatever combination of electronics. tape, and his own inspiration Eno uses. the sounds he concocts never stray from the musical demands of Bowie's songs, and the sheer multitude and variety of these sounds makes Lodger a fascinating album almost as fascinating efforts. Lodger can claim its own identity because of Bowie's flair for personification--he takes each of Eno's abstract noises and weds it to whichever character he's playing at the moment...
...learn only that every peasant is a saint who suffers in stoic silence. Bertolucci's observations are no less sentimental, but at least he took some artistic risks in the process. While Olmi seems to feel that the sheer homeliness of his technique amounts to blunt honesty, his aesthetic is every bit as disingenuous as that of a professional waif portraitist in Montmartre. All he has done is serve his picturesque peasants on a pretty platter so that rich people, from a safe distance, can get their fill...
...Cohen wrote, "was sufficient in its scope and detail to provide the Administrator with sufficient facts to make an 'eyes open' judgment whether or not to fund the project, even though the EIS, because of its sheer scope, could not detail with more precision upon whose block each phase of construction might fall, or every possible methodology of construction which might be needed to complete the project...