Word: sheerly
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...even more vehement attack comes from ABC Nightline Correspondent and Syndicated Columnist Jeff Greenfield. "What we have done by the sheer quantity of stories is to imply that a very serious problem has become the most pressing domestic crisis," says Greenfield. "We have helped create an atmosphere in which hysterical legislation is more likely to pass." Hodding Carter, host of PBS's Capitol Journal, agrees. "What the media have done is to throw the blood into the water and then look back and say, 'My, my, the sharks are feeding on this blood in Congress,' " said Carter on the MacNeil...
...form for director Lynch. In the course of his relatively brief career he has given us Eraserhead, an unsung underground classic, The Elephant Man, a bittersweet beauty-and-the-beast parable, and Dune, a $40 million dollar turtlewaxed Edsel. In Blue Velvet Lynch demonstrates with grace and the sheer momentum of genius that he is our most valuable, audacious and unabashed cinematic exorcist. He takes fear, his and ours, and smears it on the big screen. His canvas is dazzling, replete with hyperorganic imagery and an almost primal compulsion to confront man's inner self. And at 40 years young...
Caught unawares, brokers were at a loss as to what to tell clients, if clients would listen at all. "This is just sheer crazy," said Arthur Randall, a broker with E.F. Hutton. "You try to be cool and counsel patience. But what do you tell a client when in the course of the minute he's been on the phone with you the Dow has fallen 20 points?" Said Alan Klein, an investment-minded dentist from Roslyn Heights, N.Y.: "It was like a two-day root canal without anesthetic. You find me a patient who can keep cool under those...
Crime is directly fueled by drug abuse. "I believe the crime problem in America today is the drug problem," declares New York City Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward. The sheer dollar volume of narcotics traffic is immense, estimated at anywhere from $27 billion to $110 billion a year. In a study released this year of the link between drugs and street crime in New York and Washington, 56% of suspects tested were using drugs at the time of arrest. In Florida, the burglary rate is up 30% so far this year; cocaine arrests...
There is ample room to debate the influence that Henry Moore had on modern sculpture. But the sheer pervasiveness of his work is not in doubt. When he died last week at the age of 88 in the farmhouse where he had lived and worked for more than 40 years, near the English village of Much Hadham, Henry Moore, C.H., O.M., was the best-known sculptor in the world...