Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increasingly noisy claims for recognition and redress. Almost overnight, it seems, many if not most of Europe's central governments face what British Author Anthony Sampson describes in The New Europeans as a "long, untidy" period of internal struggles in "many different forms, from regionalism to anarchism to sheer eccentricity...
...best tourist manner, Queen Elizabeth was cheerfully taking tea and watching a parade of elephants while on her tour of Thailand last year. Suddenly, in a series of baffling photographs just published in London, Elizabeth registered first dismay, then pain, then a rictus of what looked like sheer agony. Was it that tea? A tack on the chair? Back trouble? Horst Ossinger, the German photographer who caught the moment with a telephoto lens, and won the Holland World Press Photo Contest prize for it, doesn't know. And the Queen isn't telling...
...years ago, when her marriage was in ruins and she sought "someplace where a deep, ragged sigh would not sound unusual." She found it in a rundown hotel peopled by pensioners in an unnamed American city. She was both fascinated and appalled by the unfeeling, single-minded pursuit of sheer survival shown by Al and Harry, two panhandlers in their 70s with whom she trudged the streets. They spent their days, she writes with compassion, "scurrying around the city, like chiggers under the skin of civilization...
...simple one. Harvard must reduce its basketball profile so that it competes not with nationally-ranked powers, but with schools fielding similar teams. It cannot fall, however, into a state where the teams it plays against are not competitive. Harvard must realize that its athletes are excellent, and by sheer physical ability will overpower such teams as MIT, Amherst, Colby, etc.. Perhaps competing against a combination of Ivy League schools, local schools, and "Yankee Conference" schools is the answer? A middle road can, and should be found in the immediate future...
...part of the process of a painter painting is easily the most interesting of the film, but it hints at a kind of fatal demystification to which modern methods of working are particularly subject. The process of painting no longer seems like that of an artist creating from sheer, inner self. With Pollock there came the negation of the easel and, for the most part, the brush. De Kooning spent almost as much time scraping rejected versions of his Women off the canvas as painting them onto it. Here, Larry Poons--who looks like a football lineman but, the film...