Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Want to change values? Change government, the 800-lb. gorilla whose sheer bulk and reach powerfully influence private conduct. Government, after all, is the business of politicians. Preaching is best left to the clergy. They have the practice and the standing...
...women had made the vertical Long March to respectability in the office and the bedroom, but according to Hite, they felt abused and desperately confused. The book's statistics and haranguing tone troubled TIME writer Claudia Wallis. Yet under the sheer hype, she discovered a bitter truth that transcended sexual specifics. "Women are finding that they cannot have it all," concluded Wallis. "They are staggering under the burden of trying to be all things to all people -- the nurturing parent, the successful ) careerist, the sexual athlete. Today they are asking men to play all these roles...
...sheer comic relief, the best performance of the evening was turned in by an unknown: Jason Schmitt '98, a freshman running for the council's presidency. Schmitt announced that he could offer the change the council needs, that he could restore it to respectability. He even presented a three-part platform (pretty good for someone who's barely been at Harvard a month...
...popular uprising. They are haunted by a vision of wild rampages in which mobs seek retribution by destroying the homes of their oppressors. Those fears were only exacerbated by the Americans' success at squelching the Haitian military, which has tended to embolden pro-Aristide forces. In several cases, the sheer presence of American troops has inspired crowds to attack stragglers from the Haitian military. To discourage this, the U.S. has actually cut the size of its patrols in some neighborhoods...
...part interview with Sharon Stone, Extra devoted more time to teasing the story (countless shots of the infamous leg-crossing scene from Basic Instinct) than to Stone's perky but paltry "revelations." The show has closely copied E.T.'s format, but it can't match the original for sheer doggedness. In its coverage of the Emmy awards, Extra followed around one nominee, NYPD Blue's Nicholas Turturro, on the day of the awards ceremony. E.T. did the same thing with nine nominees...