Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening bars of the third track, "Heroine," Anderson sings, "She walks in beauty like the night/Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers/ Pornographic and tragic in black and white/ My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour." While some might deem this cacophony of metaphors poetic, the sheer blender-mixed quality disturbs the song's coherence. This choppiness makes it difficult the type of emotional kinship that seems to be the band's goal...
...fairly standard conversation," Shepsle reported. "The sheer enormity of the task of trying to assemble the class each year...
Over since he voted last November, Vin Thomlin has won-dered whether it was worth it. Out of sheer indignation about the state of things in America, he went to the polls for the first time in more than a decade. And he voted Republican across the board for the first time in his life. He started having regrets almost immediately. ``I was only gone for about an hour, but when I got back to my apartment, I'd been burglarized. My stereo, TV, money, everything,'' says the 46-year-old Milwaukee, Wisconsin, handyman. As Thomlin tells the story...
...Tocqueville's Christian monopoly is no more. Though Christianity still dominates by sheer numbers, the U.S. ``now has a greater diversity of religious groups than any country in recorded history,'' observes J. Gordon Melton, who will list 1,600 denominations, 44% of them non-Christian, in his next Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of these have blossomed since 1960; some are homegrown, others imported by immigrants. Judaism, the first faith to crack Christian hegemony, is today deeply rooted in the U.S., although it is being eroded by secularization, low birthrates and high levels of intermarriage. Some experts say ethnic Jews...
...however, shed remarkably little light on his personal travails. True, one of his narrators remarks in passing, "And fictions, as I have come close to suggesting before, are dangerous." If anyone has earned the authority of that observation it is Rushdie, but here he seems more interested in the sheer fun of making things...