Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show in terms of civilian deaths or military targets, the bombing raids of the past two weeks were unprecedented in the history of the Viet Nam War. The usual comparisons with World War II are misleading; the use of fire bombs then caused more casualties and destruction. Still, the sheer tonnage dropped on Viet Nam in the recent raids surpassed virtually all of the famous bombing raids -Dresden, Hamburg, Coventry and London. The U.S. was not trying to do what former SAC Commander Curtis LeMay once suggested-bomb North Viet Nam back into the Stone Age-but to some...
Ultracritical. As Truman's physician since his White House days, Surgeon Graham was forewarned of how this last illness might manifest itself. When he was under exceptional stress as President, Truman had developed noisy breathing (technically, "rales") which, Graham recalls, he seemed able to control by sheer will power. Over the years the rales recurred occasionally. About two years ago, Truman pointed to his head and told Graham: "I feel as though I have a little hot wire up here." When he had that feeling, the ex-President lost some of his famed alertness. Also, he said: "My eyeballs...
...Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary cross-section of Clermont Ferrand residents who lived through Occupied France, is, in the final analysis, a noble failure. It brings us up close to varying degrees of complicity and guilt and some causes for it, but the sheer bulk of its interviews and newsreel clips not only occasionally deadens, but gives the audience a misconceived faith in the completeness of Ophuls' very selective vision. Documentary talents like Ophuls' are hard to find, however, and they're needed desperately to slake a thirst for social commentary rarely touched by fiction filmmakers...
...long before the movie has meandered to a close. Besides Newman, playing a desperado who dabbles in rough-and-ready jurisprudence, the cast includes Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins and Ava Gardner, none of whom measure up to Bruno's ursine splendor and sheer animal magnetism...
Crichton is the author of the highly successful Secret of Santa Vittoria, and this book is already a bestseller. Yet The Camerons curiously resembles an autobiographical first novel; its uneven scenes are sometimes sheer cardboard, sometimes compelling. Easy complaints about slickness, commerce and sentimentality, though, do not do justice to the great affection and knowledge that Crichton shows. His description of a starved, out-of-work miner treating himself to one golden, fabulously self-indulgent, perfectly boiled egg would splinter a heart...