Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Endangered Species. At Dior and most other houses this year, the fur flew freely. Bohan's coats have collars of red or silver fox; raincoats are lined and hooded in mink and moleskin; his anoraks are lined in seal or fox; sheer jackets are bordered in matching ostrich plumes. But if Bohan's clothes hurt the purse, they should not distress the conscience. Said a program footnote: "Christian Dior Fourrure hereby declares that none of the furs shown in the collection are on the endangered list of the World Wild Life Fund." Indeed, if their prices keep rising...
...Teddy Rooseveit's lingoistic Wipe-am-out mentality, people going around constantly warning the going around constantly warning the Barbary Pirates (who have kidnapped Candice Bergen) that "the big attack" will have its way. When the Americans finally do arrive and you're supposed to stare at the sheer power of this most powerful big-gunned nation in the world; they come in like stormtroopers, goosestepping silently, like machines, as the frightened Arabs clear the streets in terror. Meanwhile, both Candy and TR have galned a grudging respect for Sean Connery, the shelk/kidnapper...
...musicals--perhaps the classic--what with its Adolph Green-Betty Comden score and its Gene Kelly-Stanley Donen choreography. A lot of people who have never seen the movie in its entirety have managed to catch a tantalizing glimpse of the title number--three or four minutes of sheer, unadulterated joy, with Gene Kelly splashing around like an ecstatic, acrobatic duck through foot-deep puddles and grinning idiotically under a rainpipe's torrent...
...didn't you do a cover story on Elton John five years ago when his songs were good? His music now is sheer trash. I wish you had the nerve to admit...
...DECIDE to kill her for the money, and the rest of the film is a series of asinine murder plots that they botch through sheer stupidity. You've seen it all before. The poisonous snake that turns out to be harmless. The failure to drown her in a birdbath. The leaky casket, cast out to sea, that deposits her unharmed on a beach, still in a fog. Drawn as close as possible to the rich-broad stereotype, she's as deficient in human skills as they are: not only can't she cook, but she can't refuse...