Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their swallow-tailed coats and frilly shirts, their long summer gowns and free-flowing hairdos, they look like characters from a bacchanal in Byron's own early 19th century London. They rival one another not only in elegance and extravagance but in sheer stamina, for the evening is likely to begin with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution...
...Beyond sheer diligence and hard work, there is a particular American tradition of salesmanship. The genre lives on among those hyperkinetic promoters who have latched or lucked onto a product of no special utility or promise and hustled the hell...
...have another new story to tell in our CINEMA section this week, the tale of a movie with such uncontrived innocence and sheer fantasy that it may start a trend in the film industry. We first heard about Star Wars from Associate Editor Gerald Clarke, who was in Los Angeles to search out SHOW BUSINESS stories. Getting word of a film that was to be given an unusual Sunday-morning preview in San Francisco, he flew north and was in the theater at 10 a.m., along with several hundred screaming children, a scattering of sci-fi film buffs and Director...
...uttering a word-that he was willing to share certain information. When I showed him what I had, he read it avidly. When I asked him for his stuff in return, he insisted-and technically correctly-that he never promised anything of the sort." Some of this may be sheer love of the game; Russians are very good at chess...
...that Carlo didn't try to fit in at first. Prescott St. was an all-male dorm, and natural selection took a heavy toll: either you learned to like beer and Monday Night football or you perished from sheer loneliness. So Carlo sipped his Budweiser and learned to hate Cosell, but all the time he wanted to be cruising up the social ladder after some debutante, wearing topsiders and down vest and talking like a Cabot. The problem was, he stood in the middle of the battleground...