Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AGAIN, ALMOST accidentally, the sheer triteness of Nilsson's script is often the richest source of humor. Oblio meets a heap of rocks, Rock Man (Gerald Bernstein), a "stone person" with a deep, throbbing double-bass of a voice and an endless stream of outdsted jargon, "Being a rock," he intones, "is a very...heavy...life. We rocks are impervious to heat. We...stay...cool," And his coolness increases, strangely enough in direct proportion to the number of his cliches, which come fast and furious. His advice to Oblio is to keep cool--like "Mother Nature sittin' at the console...
MacLaine (played with charm and chill by David Essex, himself a British pop star) goes a long way on a modest talent. Some of his success is sheer luck; most can be traced to the general craziness of the times, when a boy from the north could become a crown prince on the strength of one good tune or two. Stardust picks up in 1964, and MacLaine and his group, the Stray Cats, seem modeled on the Beatles. They jump from being a bunch of good-time lads playing dungeons in Liverpool to the very top of the pops...
...company has some other fundamental problems with market strategy that would not be cured by a quick sales upturn. Officials at other auto firms fault Chrysler for having tried to match GM in sheer model proliferation in the 1960s, but then being slow to meet the growing small-car market. With the Valiant and the popular Dodge Dart, Chrysler today has the largest share (32%) of compact-car sales, but its biggest product investment last year was in a costly redesign of its full-sized cars. Its one subcompact, the Dodge Colt, is built by Japan's Mitsubishi...
...MOVIE OPENS with a shot of Emmanuelle staring out of the window; it is raining outside and her robe is sheer and diaphanous. The phone rings, Emmanuelle glides over, answers it, and as she sits down her robe falls open from the waist. And the ads promised. "X was never like this...
Says N.H.L. President Clarence Campbell, who suspended Schultz for a game last week because of his violent behavior: "Without doubt, this has been our worst year ever for sheer violence...