Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns manipulative and sympathetic to the heartbroken Lewinsky, Tripp at one point wants to kick certain presidential body parts and "flatten [them] into little pancakes so he can never use them again." She presses Monica to hold out for "a kick-ass job." She slams Currie for her "sheer stupidity" in not helping Monica to see more of Handsome, who, by the way, tells Monica he doesn't think of himself that way but looks in the mirror and sees "a fat little kid who couldn't throw a ball straight." Predictably dysfunctional as surrogate mom, Tripp doesn't help...
...that the Lewinsky-Rwanda convergence shows: Clinton's willingness to use words as if he did not understand that they have real meanings and consequences, as if his intense, fleeting sincerity--his shoeshine and his smile, or his wagging finger, or sidelong laser glance, or his bitten lip: his sheer performance--were sufficient. We are headed into historical country where they are not. And they never were...
Sure, it all starts out well. Freshman Week provides an incredible exposure to the diversity (not to mention the sheer size) of the incoming class. We meet people from all over the world. We are exposed to a variety of interests and past accomplishments and we encounter individuals similar to and very different from ourselves...
...first time in history, a Red Sox team has lost an American League postseason series without getting swept. The sheer mediocrity of this means, I think, that no Curse of the Bambino shadows this team; it has merely suffered from bad luck--80 years of it, certainly, but bad luck just the same...
...ability 8 4 7 6 Think-fulness 8 2 7 5 Natural Woman-liness 6 8 8 * Sheer Diva-attitude...