Word: sheerly
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...successful work of art be this depressing? One could argue no. Even in the worst circumstances, art buoys us by the sheer galvanizing presence of an individual creative act. For all its journalistic force, Silverlake Life seems to have been animated less by artistic than by therapeutic impulses: filmmaking was a way for Tom and Mark to cope with their grief. Which is not to deny the power of Silverlake Life, only to warn that television doesn't get any grimmer...
There is one particular part of the Harvard Management Company which would require special attention-the handling of the $1.25 billion risk capital or private placement portfolio. Other factors besides sheer professional incompetence and fiscal negligence may be responsible for monumental losses. The managers operate behind a veil of secrecy under the fallacious pretext of losing competitive financial advantage. This argument is nothing less than an insult to Harvard's financial intelligence...
Henry Lee, executive director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center in the Kennedy School of Government, attributes his 1979 return to Harvard to the "sheer quality of opportunities Harvard had to offer in my field...
Well, for one thing, it's the Clintons' sheer, star-loving promiscuity. Making time during the first 125 days for Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone (twice), Richard Gere, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Quincy Jones, Sinbad, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Sam Waterston, Hammer, Lindsay Wagner and Judy Collins is a remarkable achievement. When Hillary Rodham Clinton, after seeing Liza Minnelli sing on TV, calls and asks her to stay overnight, it looks frivolous, a little unseemly...
Other people are simply in over their heads -- literally, in some cases. Clinton asked Arkansas chum Bruce Lindsey to oversee the appointments process and remain at his side on trips out of town. But Lindsey is so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of paper crossing his desk that he has resorted to a method of filing that consists of crisscrossing documents as they came in: one sideways, one straight, one sideways and so on. When one stack grew too tall, he started another. When he ran out of flat surfaces, he added to a previous stack. Soon the stacks collapsed...