Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maximize Coward's well hidden strengths--the parody of English manners and social institutions, the art of verbal thrust and counterthrust, the sharp criticism of women's roles in society. Consider a typical Coward "life-line": "If there's one thing in the world that infuriates me, it's sheer wanton stubbornness. I should like to cut off your head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly...
...Last Frontier, Bobby plays himself, an American city boy learning how to live in the wilds of Africa. His part demands several dangerous encounters, including a puffadder handling exhibition. So far he has demonstrated his cool by dangling at the end of a rope over the face of a sheer, 250-ft. cliff to inspect a vulture's nest. Then, wearing a bracelet of elephant's hair to deter a tusker's charge, he stepped out to meet the warriors in a Masai village. Recognizing Bobby right away as a brother, the ocher-smeared men shared...
Cold Calculation. Unlike Texas Millionaire Hunt, Davidson has not had a family fortune to back his enterprises. What the son of a poor Montana farmer has lacked in money, though, he has more than made up in flair, shrewd business sense and sheer moxie. He set the tone for his climb to fortune eight years ago when he was running a modest law office in Southern California. "If people came in my office with money," Davidson says, "I took their cases...
Already it looks as if commedia della calculator will fast become a national craze. Says James Rogers, an editor of Scientific American magazine: "I went through the stage of saying 'I don't need one of these.' But once you get one, it's sheer bliss." To achieve BLISS, punch 441304, divide...
...years ago, Chirac observed that the chief function of a Premier in France is to "take responsibility for everything that is a bit disagreeable and difficult." Chirac has seldom expressed a firm conviction on any issue; he seems less interested in political abstractions than in the technical exercise of sheer power...