Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the play cannot retain as political allegory it can make up in sheer drama, but this possibility is diluted by Lester Thompson Jr.'s overly symbolic direction and the general inadequacy of the actors. Thompson sets the living room in the middle of a basketball court, a heavyhanded attempt to indicate omnipresent memories of glories past. As the audience enters, a young man is shooting baskets, and we find out later that he is supposed to represent the spirit of Martin, the fifth player who never comes to the reunions. He stays there through the beginning of the play...
...monument stands over Babi Yar; A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. -Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Babi...
...glasses, one marked M, the other Q. Thus opened what is becoming one of advertising's most bizarre feuds. It pits the nation's leading soft-drink maker, Coca-Cola, against its closest ranking competitor, Pepsi-Cola, in a taste bud to taste bud donnybrook that for sheer zaniness outdoes anything the ad world has seen in years...
...five minutes to get to the floor. There was a great temptation not to return the pass. But two things, the rumor that Washington columnist Barbara Howar had been evicted from the convention for staying out an hour-and-a-half on her floor pass, and the DNC staffers' sheer meanness when they greeted you if you returned even a few minutes late, were strong deterrents. Those with orange passes had a much sweeter deal. They had far more passes to rotate among themselves, and could get to the floor much easier...
Food and drink peddlers, promoters and itinerant entertainers surrounded athletes and spectators at the foot of Mount Olympus. (There was also competition for the contract to supply the games with olive oil, with which the athletes rubbed themselves before competing.) Professionalism, poor sportsmanship and sheer ferocity were rife. Some of the competitions were more violent than those in the games today. The most popular event was the pankration, a combination of wrestling, judo and boxing in which contestants punched, slapped, kicked and-if they could get away with it-even bit or gouged each other until one or the other...