Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure skating, there were moments of sheer perfection...
...undoubtedly wipe out the populations of both nations and would surely cause catastrophic environmental damage. According to former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in Defense Secretary FY 1969, the proposed 250 EMT would still do significant damage to the poulations and economies of both nations, thereby making a first strike sheer stupidity. Without this reduction, however, recovery would be impossible and the entire world would be directly affected...
Congress understands perhaps all too well the implications of the administrations proposed plan for monitoring the activities of government officials with security clearances Beyond the sheer numbers the unrestricted permitting threatens individual privacy and First Amendment rights By permitting one Administration to censor the writings of previous Administration officials the censorship rule--covering nearly 113,000 workers in the highest levels of government--would effectively curtail informed criticism...
...despite these failings, the overall energy, creativity, and sheer entertainment makes Cats a bravura production well worth seeing. From the hauntingly beautiful melody of "Memory" to the energetic "Mr. Mistoffelees" to the final song, a glorifying paean to felines Cats is a celebration of cats--and maybe after all it isn't purely fantasy. Look at Tabby the next time he basks on the sunlit windowsill, unbothered by the mundane humanity around him, lost in a secret world of his own, end you may begin to have second thoughts...
...Packing 30 years of Broadway savvy into the frame of a vivacious teenager, the 51-year-old entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli steps to center stage only to belt out three or four of Kander...