Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial of John Demjanjuk, the retired Cleveland autoworker accused of being Ivan the Terrible, the notorious Nazi guard at Treblinka. Roth attends the trial in the beginning to find Pipik, but he gets so caught up in the idea of mistaken identity that he begins to go out of sheer interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West bank; Jinx Possesski, Pipik's Polish...
...sheer promotional chutzpah, Los Angeles' KABC-TV wins the Emmy: following Oprah Winfrey's high-rated interview with Michael Jackson in February, the station turned its entire 11 p.m. newscast (save for a few minutes of sports and weather) into a special report on Jackson. The end of local TV news as we know it? Depends on how you look at it; ratings for the show soared to nearly four times the newscast's usual figures...
...Barnes Foundation closed a $700,000 book-and-catalog publishing deal with Knopf; it was signed soon after the foundation controlled by Knopf's owner, Samuel Newhouse Jr., gave a $2 million donation to Lincoln University -- sheer coincidence, no doubt, but nevertheless the timing prompted a lawsuit brought by the DeMazia Trust. Meanwhile, several objectors within the Barnes Foundation -- both teachers and students -- have been expelled or dismissed, allegedly on Glanton's orders...
...only irritates them. It is only natural, they think, that the former enemies of Russia would approve of Yeltsin, because he is the one who ruined the country. I am really concerned about a growth of anti-American feeling. You have fallen into this artificial trap out of a sheer lack of knowledge of Russia...
...common parlance, this species is sometimes known as the "a-capella-Science-Center-type." They spend their leisure time watching movies at the science center and attending a capella concerts where they laugh with true glee at the onstage antics. The DF can be easily identified by the sheer number of pieces of Harvard paraphernalia he or she owns. DFs wear Harvard sweatshirts and Harvard sweatpants over Harvard Boxers, carrying John Harvard mugs in their left hands with Harvard knapsacks slung over their right shoulders...