Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Rose to Freckles. For sheer spectacle, of course, no one outperforms the Kennedys, who, as Mother Rose remarked in California last week, "more or less inaugurated this business of family campaigning when John Kennedy ran for the Senate in 1952." Since Bobby's March 16 announcement, all the clan from Rose to Freckles, the Senator's Irish spaniel, has swarmed across the landscape to pursue voters. While Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith and Brother Teddy manage campaign logistics and strategy, Sisters Jean and Pat, Sister-in-Law Joan and Cousin Polly Fitzgerald descend upon the distaff electorate...
Some pictures are put-ons that seem to plead for a tacit agreement with their audience: what is to be viewed is beneath contempt, therefore it is beyond criticism. Disarmed, audiences are presumably free to enjoy the movie in the same way they appreciate the sheer ghastliness of Mrs. Miller's wobbly warbling or the fruity falsetto of Tiny Tim. Two current examples come from...
...these, however, are petty considerations compared to the sheer feat of performing that much Bach--any musician's ordeal by combat--on one program. Almost consistently competent on a professional level, the combined efforts of Buswell and Valenti frequently achieved real excitement as well. Hedonist or intellectual, that is as much as anyone...
...sheer bulk of big cities slows the cleansing winds; at the same time, rising city heat helps to create thermal inversions (warm air above cold) that can trap smog for days-a crisis that in 1963 killed 400 New Yorkers. Cars complete the deadly picture. While U.S. chimneys belch 100,000 tons of sulfur dioxide every day, 90 million motor vehicles add 230,000 tons of carbon monoxide (52% of smog) and other lethal gases, which then form ozone and peroxyacetyl nitrate that kill or stunt many plants, ranging from orchids to oranges. Tetraethyl lead in auto exhausts affects human...
...catcher rifled the ball over the second baseman's head in an attempted pickoff. The Yardlings' big catcher, Pete Varney, drew an intentional walk bringing up Bernhard. As soon as he hit the ball and Demichele crossed the plate, the game was over. But Bernhard rounded the bases in sheer joy, sliding home on his face...