Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business Illustrated. "Like Playboy, it will offer status, romance, and girls-all that a guy works for in our society." Will S.B.I, be collecting plenty of sex? Down, playboy. "If girls were the only motivation for buying our magazines," says Hefner, "they wouldn't sell. People would buy sheer smut. We, on the other hand, are Taste City." Fundamental Things. Taste City has many flavors, and they can all be savored at Hefner's Playboy Club. All the customers have membership keys, the closest thing to a Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, and no one except an occasional...
Dark and forbidding, the great triangle of granite rises 13,040 ft. out of the Swiss Alps. Men were dying on its sheer sides as far back as the 12th century, when the monks named it der Eiger, or the Ogre...
...supporting cast is every bit as game, but it doesn't cope quite so successfully. Jo Van Fleet (the prostitute and, as it turns out, the boys' mother) got an Oscar, but probably for sheer stamina; at least no one else in the film is required to say (with pride and disdain): "I run the toughest house on the coast, and I've got the finest clientele...
...could produce ravishing sounds while reading a grocery list. Eileen Farrell wields her powerful voice with a fine sense of dramatic effect, but she is handicapped by a stage presence that sometimes destroys the illusion that her voice is creating. As for Maria Callas, she triumphs through sheer intelligence, acting ability and guts over her vocal limitations; she has undeniable fire without comparable warmth. Says a colleague who has worked with them both: "Callas expresses the torture of her life through her voice. Leontyne expresses...
James G. Leaf '63, who spent three hours waiting without getting a ticket, commented that "sheer weight and size were the only qualifications needed for a ticket...