Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hadn't been a total separation between the head of government and the head of state. The fact that the Queen is above politics is one of the intangible advantages. The other thing is the continuity of the Crown and, in our particular case, the Queen's sheer hard work and deep grasp of every kind of national and international problem. You have an audience every week, lasting about an hour. She sometimes floors you-did floor me very early in my premiership-by referring to a Cabinet committee paper that she had read overnight and that...
...ultimate triumph of special effects over common sense? A weird sexual charge, heavy in portent, reassuringly innocent in presentation? A comic strip rendering of a myth dredged up out of the collective unconscious and splashed so boldly on the screen that the audience is awed into acceptance by its sheer audacity? Or is it, finally, just an act of primal showmanship, a Barnum-like invitation to admit to ourselves that we are all members of the great fraternity of suckerhood and simply revel in the release of cultural inhibitions that admission sometimes encourages...
...drama during Kong's filming. Indeed, it is fair to say that if there is something like a common denominator in the big bopper genre, it is special effects. Among the important elements drawing people to films as diverse as The Exorcist, Earthquake and Jaws was the sheer movie magic they featured. From the start it was generally, and to some degree falsely, understood that the new Kong would stand or fall on how realistic the big monkey would seem on screen. Producer De Laurentiis, being no fool, has stressed the expense of his efforts to satisfy the shrewdest...
...writer's anti-communist rhetoric was motivated less by reason than by sheer emotion and petty frustration. Mea Culpa, for example, was partly a virulent response to the rejection of Celine's script for a ballet by the Marinski Theater in Leningrad, although his failure as a choreographer and scenarist never enters into the pamphlet. A similar flopped attempt at film writing in Hollywood set his anti-semitism ludicrously into gear: "The Hollywood Jews ... know what a pretty girl is. Ah Goldwyn Mayer! I would have given ten years of my life to sit for one moment in their armchairs...
...Sinfonietta," for example, states the musicality of movement--melody and harmony visualized. The themes heard and seen in the first sweeping movement break into four couples, who complete a cycle of elemental meetings, four seasonal couplings. And as the piece that relied most on sheer dancing, it was the least effective of the three presented...