Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing so heady is planned for Carter this trip. But Yankees abroad are always worth watching for the sheer pleasure of it. Kennedy soothed his aching back in Napoleon's gold bathtub while awed aides from Nebraska and Massachusetts watched. L.B.J. brought his exercise bicycle along, bolted it to the floor of Air Force One, and pumped away in his sweat suit at 37,000 feet over Asia in 1967. As he pedaled, he gave an interview to reporters on the glories of the first presidential circumnavigation of the globe. It was on this trip that he delivered...
...terms of sheer hoopla, 1978 promises to be one of the biggest years in recent history for the Evangelicals. Items...
...Shakespeare's work, the fallen knight Falstaff, a wonderful scoundrel of a man, tends to dominate the play, by the force of his wit if not by his sheer weight. Brilliantly played by Paul Redmond, Falstaff far outshines all the other roles in the show. In Redmond's hands, Falstaff is an incorrigible bundle of contradictions. Lusting after the role of moralizer, he pulls his bulging body up underneath him, only to find that a stamping foot or a waving hand takes on a life of its own. Redmond shows Falstaff as a weak old man lying about brave exploits...
They are not a particularly attractive bunch; and one of the work's major problems is that the audience is drawn into the play less by empathy than by sheer fascination with Ibsen's unerring craft. Similar problems exist with the dominant structure of dualities and negations. What is said is often far different from what is meant. Hedda maintains inner autonomy by contemptuous manipulation of others, and the culminating suicide grotesquely affirms freedom, leaving the onlooker shaken but less than profoundly moved...
...displayed "his phenomenal bounceback capacity. Comeback has been a recurring theme of his career, it has happened again," Price says. "It took a lot of guts, a lot of determination to come back from the low point of August 9th. I've developed a lot of admiration for the sheer guts of the guy, at the way he's bounced back and taken all that's been dumped on him these last few years...