Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spinola seemed to be holding the coalition together and keeping potential opponents at bay by the sheer force of his popularity. As he left the palace after his inauguration, 15,000 citizens cheered him, and his Mercedes was showered with white carnations. The frosty general broke into a rare smile and returned his supporters' V-for-victory sign. Even an obscure left-wing splinter group called Movimento Anarquista dos Homosexuais Revolucionários pledged its unswerving loyalty to the new regime. Another band of anarchists marched into a government office demanding recognition as a "democratic opposition." When an official...
Chautauqua Troupers. The transcripts posed a different problem for TV and radio. The text seemed to offer little chance for visual excitement, while its sheer bulk prohibited complete on-the-air coverage (some noncommercial radio stations across the country have been staging marathon readings, however). By Tuesday evening, just hours after the release, all three networks had produced sharp analyses of key presidential conversations, particularly the March 21 meeting between Nixon and Dean...
...African rebels have greeted Spínola with both suspicion and hostility, viewing his ideas for federation as merely a more sophisticated brand of colonialism. If it were to be a true federation, says Luis Cabral, a leader of Guinea's rebels, sheer weight of numbers would give the leadership to blacks. He adds sarcastically: "I'm sure Spinola wouldn't want a black government heading Portugal." Said Dr. Agostino Neto, an Angolan guerrilla leader: "What we want is to be completely free to determine the destiny of our own country. If all Lisbon has in mind...
...returned to light farce and good fortune. In its first ten days of release in the U.S., Lester's new version of Alexandre Dumas' classic The Three Musketeers has brought in more than $3.5 million-a hefty indication that what audiences bloody well want to see is sheer entertainment. Meticulously constructed, broadly funny and relatively chaste, The Three Musketeers is a film for the whole family, and one that is not about children or animals...
...traveling song and medicine shows that used to roll through rural America possessed a kind of corny fraudulence that was redeemed by their sheer authenticity as expressions of that America. The danger of mounting such a show in the age of Interstates and Holiday Inns is that only the fraud and an offensive corn would be left, candied thickly with commercial Americana...