Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burroughs High School in Burbank, Calif. Friends say she doesn't look a day older; enemies say she doesn't act a day older. But in twelve years and 26 films the little lady-she stands 5 ft. 1½ in., weighs 100 Ibs.-has developed, by sheer work and sheer nylons, into an effective hoofer and a get-by ballad-belter. And in recent films she has emerged as a competent utility comedienne, a half-fast Hutton, a pingpong Ball with lots of bounce...
Between the spells of violence, there always comes a time when everything stops for the Congo's slow-motion politics. It is a painful process, and excruciatingly complicated, almost as if each side hoped to crush the other through sheer exasperation...
Television has its faults as an advertising medium, said Cone. Its aim is indiscriminate and low. But the newcomer also has some distinct virtues as a vendor. "There are certain areas in advertising and selling where the sheer size of its audience, combined with the low cost of reaching it, makes television an almost mandatory medium." Certainly, no other medium can do a better job in peddling kitchen scouring pads-a job that Cone's agency gave to Gertrude (Molly Goldberg) Berg: "Who, except the makers, wants to argue the merits of competitive brands? This is where television...
John Wolfson has constructed himself a fantasy, or more precisely, a cosmology, a huge private joke of a universe which he has thrown rather diffidently onto the Loeb experimental stage and asked an audience to enjoy. That is what strikes one first about Dr. Plantagenet, the sheer nerve of the play. Shaw's Back to Methuselah seems by contrast extraordinarily limited in scope...
...forced them to drop Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouweur, scheduled as a vehicle for Tebaldi, Italy's diva serena canceled her contract for the season. In the repertory she calls her own (Otello, Boheme, Tosca, Forza del Destino, Butterfly, Andrea Chenier) she still cannot be challenged for sheer lovely sound-a sound that when she is in proper form seems to lie in the center of the voice, with virtually no displacement of notes. And although her acting remains as wooden as ever, she still knows how to make a line breathe, how to linger over phrases...