Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr's long journey down the dirt road takes the reader past things most would rather not see, to places they would rather not go. The most shocking aspect of the report was the sheer quantity and raw quality of sexual detail. Starr's grand jurors received this evidence drop by drop, day by day; last week it came in a torrent over the wires in an instant, flooding the circuits of conscience and calculation and taste. Starr takes readers through the entire history of Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky, from their first flirtations during the government shutdown...
Then there was the sheer impact of his recklessness and arrogance. He had chosen to seduce, under the eyes of his staff and security detail, not only an employee half his age but one who was indiscreet from the start, sending mushy notes by messenger, telling her mom and her friends and her therapist, all but skywriting over the Capitol that she had bagged the Big Guy. It's not comfortable to be a politician riding the coattails of a man with a death wish. Among the requirements of his apologies to fellow Democrats was the assurance that there were...
...Being in the country, you get the idea of what he really means to them, to the country as a symbol," Mwangi said, adding that Mandela appears to "hold a country of disparate views together by sheer moral integrity...
...Gulf War poster hangs on a wall not far from a sign advertising knife-sharpening services. Grazer asked that the film be "scarier and sexier." While some nudity and language that Hitchcock ditched due to the censorship restrictions of his day were restored, Van Sant has struggled to resist sheer exploitation. "I never thought this was a film that needed beefing up," he says. "The subtleties are its strengths...
...images kept flashing through my head last week. The brighter one was filled with the sheer exuberance of a bunch of kids from Toms River, N.J., as they pursued their ultimately successful dream of winning the World Series in Little League Baseball. The darker one stemmed from Mark McGwire's defiant confirmation that he's been taking a supplement called androstenedione, which its manufacturers claim will boost testosterone levels. While it's perfectly legal in the U.S. and the major leagues for McGwire to take the supplements, it sends an absolutely wrong health message to kids everywhere. If he does...