Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heaven of the conspicuous consumer. Dom Perignon flows like vodka in the luxury cafés and restaurants. Ferraris and Cadillacs jam the freevays on veekends. (In the original, Aksyonov used the English words transliterated into Russian.) Glass-and-steel houses cling to the island's sheer rock cliffs, in defiance of frequent earthquakes. In short, Crimea resembles nothing so much as Southern California, where, as it happens, Aksyonov spent two months in 1975 as a visiting professor...
...League graduates, blessed by a heartening amnesia about the seige mentality which surrounds exams, the 15 pounds they gained from freshman angst, and the sheer impossibility of finding good help in university towns, have an otherwise-baffling tendency to remember their college stint as the best years of their lives. Given the smartening-up students undergo as they are railroaded into their first "real" jobs, however, their university years are rarely their best-dressed. But what collegians lack in baroque splendor, they more than make up for with a plethora of youth and freshness that the most jaded New York...
...sheer size of the budget gap is al most beyond comprehension. In its weekly newspaper, the American Bankers Association tried to put a $180 billion deficit into perspective by calculating that in order to spend a billion dollars, a shopper would have...
...airplane, picked from his vast collection of models and toys. A U-boat, suspended beneath the painted sea on painted sticks, is also done from a toy. As a document of catastrophe, the scene is far from believable, but its curious power as an image comes partly from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner and the sub are sso toylike carries one back to the I mock battles of the nursery, to the child's delight in constructing harmless miniature wrecks that dis charge the aggressions of child? hood. "As flies...
Just how great became more evident after the war. By sheer persistence, De Gaulle won France a mostly undeserved role as an equal to Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union in tidying up Europe after...