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Word: sheerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...niceness of it all, though, is the fact that these performers are talented, polished and very limber. All are expert at transforming themselves into inanimate objects, small children, slimy monsters, and so on. What they lack in satiric sharpness they usually make up for in fast pacing and the sheer accuracy of their mimicry...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: The 'Moving Theatre' of Beau Jest | 2/28/1987 | See Source »

...complexities of consciousness, language, ethics, treachery, revulsion, reason, religion, premeditation or free will. A wild animal does not contradict its own nature, does not thwart itself, as man endlessly does. A wild animal never plays for the other side. The wild animals are a holiday from deliberation. They are sheer life. To behold a bright being that lives without thought is, to the complex, cross-grained human mind, profoundly liberating. And even if they had no effect upon the human mind, still the wild animals are life -- other life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...hassled by border guards and confronted by an openly hostile contingency at the U.S. embassy. Although this rapid change in tone is initially somewhat disconcerting, the scenes featuring Woods in a Hawaiian shirt and mirrored sunglasses perched atop of a mound of corpses are powerful in their sheer absurdity. Written and directed by Oliver Stone, who recently achieved recognition for Platoon, Salvador offers a telling juxtaposition of what Americans would like to be around the world and what they actually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEWITT | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...this way, the album gains momentum. From "Took A Hammering" to "Evil Last Night," this disc progresses like a slow spiral into psychosis. However, like the best of Big Black and Naked Raygun, Ice is also triumphant and redemptive in the sheer force with which its pessimistic sentiments are lamented. If ever there were a good argument for the benefits of primal scream therapy, this trio of Chicago bands...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: You Want This Badly | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...sexually active must face some hard choices; playing out Erica Jong's little scenario is not easy. Says Judith Cohen, a University of California at San Francisco epidemiologist who for the past two years has been surveying some 500 women at high risk of catching the virus: "The sheer political and power issues involved in telling someone that you think using a condom would be a good idea are real difficult and complicated. They raise questions like, 'Are you telling me that you already have the virus?' or 'What else have you been doing that's socially unacceptable?' " For many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Chill: Fear of AIDS | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

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