Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gregory is remarkable for sheer theatricality. His special gift is to alter the ratio of expectation between an audience and a work. In Endgame, he has taken an austere doomsday play and injected it with manic laughing...
Jack's triumph in the House of Lords is as grisly, brilliant, and heavy-handed as all his others. His howl for a regime of fear is again sheer raving lunacy that to his Peers makes epitomal good sense. The film ends abruptly, with Jack knifing his wife to the sound of a child calling for its father. One is left on the film's catapulted momentum: Henry the Eighth is alive and thriving, as the eternal idea of the British ruling class...
SHERFEY'S INTERPRETATIONS of the Masters and Johnson report are no less positively inclined toward the Woman's Lib point of view. She suggests that woman, given optimal conditions for realizing her sexual potential, is virtually insatiable: one orgasm stimulates the need for another, and so on to sheer physical exhaustion. The only reason that woman's sexuality is now in such an apparent state of inhibition is that society has curbed her appetites, in the interest of stable monogamous relationships and successful child rearing. Sherfey plans a second volume in her study--a kind of "Civilization and its Discontents...
...What bothered me," she told Berger, "was this smug expression I have on my face-as if I know it all, and I really don't." In other cases, the camera may pick up a patient's hidden fears. One young woman reacted with a look of sheer terror when she was called "a sexy babe" by a member of her therapy group. The sight of her face on the TV screen made her realize that it was important to understand the causes of her sexual anxieties...
...emphasizing Winwood's guitar, and regularly muddying up the percussion. Often, as at the end of the title song, there are simply too many separate tracks, and too much activity. And yet Shoot Out at The Fantasy Factory is successful. Traffic has always been Steve Winwood's band, his sheer virtuosity virtually overshadows all else. The addition of a soul band rhythm section is schizophrenic. But schizophrenia must run in this man's mind. After all, what else but schizophrenic is "the best white rhythm and blues voice in music...