Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inevitably, from time to time Bergman strays from eerie unreality into sheer unbelievability. His hitchhikers haven't been aboard for two minutes before they've revealed their whole sexual history; while one couple crashes their car, jauntily introduces themselves and then settles down to hearty physical abuse in the back seat. Such individual twists--rather than the overall tone--come across as contrived...
...Unzipped" subtly highlights the detail in this bizarre world. One conversation between Mizrahi and Cindy Crawford captures their wonder at the sheer brightness of the Shea stadium lights. It's as if the two of them have become hothous, plants who have trouble understanding the sunlight. And no wonder. They rush about from one fitting to another on a planet of six-foot women and bottomless champagne flutes...
...might think that the sheer arithmetic of what Senator Edward Kennedy called the "Home Alone bill" would doom it among budget-minded Republicans. As Wisconsin shows, workfare with adequate social supports is much more expensive than welfare, and even the additional $3 billion now allocated in the Senate will not be enough. Simply ignoring child-care needs, as the Republican bill did initially, seems punitive and cruel, especially when the jobs are dead-end and low wage. At the Fairfax County, Virginia, welfare office, the few positions listed on the bulletin board last week ranged from pet grooming to newspaper...
That's not to say that Cal is unique--sheer luck has helped or harmed the career of every athlete. But in the case of this record, it plays a larger role than ever before...
What made Coltrane great? For some it was his sheer lung power and gale-wind force. "'Trane was the loudest, fastest saxophonist I've ever heard...he was possessed when he put that horn in his mouth," said trumpeter Miles Davis, who made about a dozen albums with him. For others it was his highly textured "sheets of sound," a rapid-fire, rhythmic attack that conjured up aural images of runaway trains, meteor showers and volcanic eruptions. Still others point to Coltrane's importance in bringing African and Eastern influences to jazz and helping bridge the worlds of jazz...