Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes to Shakespeare, reinterpretation may be the sincerest form of flattery. Challenged by the texts and intimidated by their production history, directors seem unable to mount the Bard's work without finding, or imposing, new meanings. For sheer chutzpah -- and fun -- it would be tough to top the vaudeville The Comedy of Errors that opened last week at New York City's Lincoln Center after playing at Chicago's Goodman Theater in 1983 and the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival in 1984. In this madcap vision of ancient Ephesus, everyone must learn to juggle...
...less sheer growth than the type of growth, however, that has given the megacounties their distinguishing mark of self-sufficiency. The first great wave of American suburbanization that began right after World War II was a migration of the middle class from the cities to newly created bedroom communities. But for the past dozen years or so, that movement has been immensely reinforced by a flight of jobs following the people. It is being powered by some of the mightiest currents in modern life: the communications revolution and the switch from a manufacturing to a service economy. Says George Sternlieb...
...troupe has put its own stamp on the show, particularly in Metcalf's performance, which persuasively blends resurgent hope and hints of fiercely suppressed desperation. The romance that dominated the film is played down, and the title character emerges as no winsome waif but an embodiment of sheer willpower...
...safeguard against predators, the cicadas usually first crawl out of the ground after sunset. Their main defense, though, may be sheer numbers: birds, raccoons and skunks can crunch up only so many insects. After climbing the nearest vertical object -- a tree or post, for example -- the insects take their last step toward adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with...
Jennifer M. Walser '90 found a space freshman year by sheer luck. She brought a car to Harvard during freshman week and left it at the Swiss Chalet Inn near the Alewife T stop for several days. When she returned to get it, she did not have a ticket and figured that the owners of the inn had not noticed it. Walser says that she ended up leaving the car at the inn for most of the year...