Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction was sheer bewilderment. Of all the congressional staffs to be charged with Communist leanings, Jackson's should be about the last to come to mind. Both Fosdick and Perle denied that they had ever been members of the Communist Party or sympathizers. Both have received security clearance giving them access to top-secret material...
...literal dance experiments of the fifties. David Appel claims he's been a musician since the fourth grade, but says his real interest is the fine line between unconscious changes in movement and those made consciously. If nothing else, his two pieces should be a victory for sheer concentration as Appel winds his dances tighter and tighter and each movement appears as a completion of the one that came before. April 30 and May 1 at 8 p.m. at 173A Mass. Ave. Tickets...
...come to America were innocents. Some arrived de-classed and displaced; others were energetic, vigorous, ambitious. Almost all of them were young and believed that they could maintain their personal vision of religious tradition and the cohesion of the Jewish community in the midst of American society. But the sheer facts of life on the East Side overwhelmed them. The interminable hours in the sweatshops, families crowded six to a room in the tenements, the growth of crime and near epidemics of dysentery, typhoid and tuberculosis, the "tailor's disease," seemed to reflect the chaos of their lives. Howe quotes...
Despite the exertions of a talented cast, The Beggar's Opera founders as a result of sheer length. As a play, Gay's opera is too concerned with satire to retain much dramatic force, and three hours of sometimes dated humor interspersed with dozens of similar-sounding ballads is just too much tediousness for mere talent to overcome...
...this does not obscure the fact that Bergman is working at less than full capacity. The new films lack the daunting, haunted intensity, the sheer stylistic brilliance of the earlier Persona (1966), Shame (1968) and The Passion of Anna (1969). The most recent movies are transitional works, and Face to Face is typical of them. It is a movie that marks time...