Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...older-and-wiser friend. Landers dominates every scene she is in but never hams it up, the only disappointment in her performance being her rendition of "The Ladies Who Lunch," a biting blast about bored wives that is quite possibly the best song in the show. Landers lacks the sheer vocal power required to bring it off, and she was drowned out by the massive and over-amplified 37-piece orchestra behind the scrim. This exasperating fate befell several other members of the cast...
...Boylston Street that had been locked up and unclaimed for several years. Curiosity as to the cabinet's contents led to the tracking down of its key by Promotion Director Robert B. Donovan. The results of its opening are enough to make an ardent archivist drool with sheer delight...
...Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. His "candidate," as he puts it, is Fred Fielding, Dean's White House deputy. As aide to Nixon's nemesis, Fielding has been on most such speculative source lists, but he said again last week that Haldeman's charge was "sheer fantasy." Fielding has shown TIME passports and photographs indicating that he was in Bolivia in late January 1973, when All the President's Men describes one specific undercover meeting with Deep Throat...
...bull who carries his china shop with him." That may be too brisk a dismissal. Though he operated in a sometimes heavyhanded "brinksman's" style, in his nearly eight years as Secretary of State, he became a tough and savvy diplomat who could match the Soviets in sheer implacability...
ASIDE FROM THE influence of a coterie of egalitarian and moralistic French philosophers and the vestiges of old aristocratic and peasant values that have mediated industrial class conflict, the swing to the left can be attributed in part to the sheer expression of shifting material interests of the French. Ironically, the present majority has hastened its own demise precisely because it has been so successful in stimulating economic expansion and industrialization for the past 20 years. Aided by a government that maintained its legitimacy only as long as the assembly lines were pouring out increasing numbers of cars, clothes...