Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bankers' chief talents is sheer endurance. The work is fast-paced and often requires exhausting hours. The job of ferreting out prospective acquisitions routinely requires twelve-hour days. Then, when the bidding starts, the bankers have to be ready to sacrifice their personal lives to the deal. As a result, almost all the top mergermakers are in their 30s or 40s. Jay Higgins, 38, the head of Salomon Brothers' merger department, spent six months working twelve hours a day nearly seven days a week to help Gulf Oil fend off a hostile takeover by a group of investors...
...sheer longevity of the Kennedy melodrama is astonishing. Some Americans have grown weary of the spectacle, of course, the high American soap opera verging now and then upon Greek tragedy, and of the cruelly ingenious turns that the story takes. But there is something fascinating and emblematic about the family still. For a long time it dramatized the American possibilities of self-invention-old Joe Kennedy by sheer will contriving to raise up a President, to start a dynasty. But after Joe Jr., and John, and Robert, the darker, the converse American principle intruded upon the drama, the principle that...
...three great traditions of low comedy: it is cheerfully contemptuous of authority; it is leeringly respectful of the shapely female form; and, above all, its director, Hugh Wilson (who wrote the film with Neal Israel and Pat Proft), understands that you can go a long way in comedy on sheer energy. His picture seethes like a study hall when the teacher has stepped out of the room. Everywhere you look someone is making funny noises or thinking about wrecking a car. There is even something for the odd adult here: a dreamily delicate performance by George Gaynes as the academy...
Many of the auditioners, especially those who survive to await the taking of group photographs, know one another and exchange greetings. The atmosphere is friendly rather than competitive. The sheer arithmetic of the situation means that no one person will be the reason that another fails to get hired. While he waits for the photo call, Danny Esteras, 25, jokes or commiserates with acquaintances and passes out cards for his wife's hair-styling business. Like most "successful" show dancers, he is in and out of work: he appeared in a 1981 international tour of West Side Story...
Despite some occasionally effective scenes and characterizations, Heart Like a Wheel rarely lets us see beneath Shirley's facade of sheer determination to win. As Shirley spins toward success, her emotional world seems as inert as the metal of the wheel itself...