Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheer coincidence, Gonçalves appeared on the air an hour after a TV broadcast of highlights from Autos Sacramentais that included shots of full frontal nudity. Since TV is government controlled, that in itself was a fairly strong indication that the wave of pornography is not about to subside in the near future. One reason is that the military junta-and the leftist unions, which heavily restrict the theoretically unfettered press by refusing to publish anything not to their liking-can use the sex explosion as evidence that censorship does not exist. Another is that the people obviously like...
...scale, in scope, in sheer excellence, the Royal Academy's retrospective of the works of Joseph Mallord William Turner (which runs until March 2, 1975) is the most important art exhibition held in either England or the U.S. in the past five years. Two hundred years have passed since Turner was born in a cellar in Maiden Lane and his reputation has never ceased to grow. In this show, it gets its due from an institution that Turner always regarded with filial piety. There are 650 oils, watercolors, prints and drawings on view, too many...
...costumes the ladies wore during their second act, however, were truly marvels to behold. The spotlight found Nona on stage left with a black floor-length cape covering an enticingly sheer body-stocking with silver boots and silver plates, discreetly covering a minimal portion of her body. A huge white plume crowned her head. She and Sarah lifted their eyes upward as Patti Labelle appeared atop a 20-foot stairway in center stage, wearing a cape and train profusely ornamented with orange and black feathers, reiterating the program's theme and title of the group's latest LP recording with...
...legacies of medieval Christendom is the anti-Semitic legendry that has stubbornly survived. At its worst, this xenophobic, scapegoat lore was monumental calumny, a "blood libel," as Jews rightly call it, that accused them of ritual murders of Christian children. The accusations were sheer fiction, the trumped-up charges of fanatics or Inquisitors anxious to justify persecution. Now a report from the American Jewish Committee's European office reveals that the old calumnies "still are being commemorated in religious ceremony, festival or art in several Western European countries...
...imbalance in the distribution of the world's food supplies is obvious to many students, but the sheer enormity of the problem makes any individual effort to correct that imbalance seem ridiculous. It's hard to see how denying oneself seconds on roast beef will make much difference to the starving masses in Asia, Africa and Latin America. But observers of the world food situation are saying that it is just such an individual change--on a mass scale--that is necessary if worldwide famine is to be averted...