Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though personally ascetic, Prince Feisal recognizes that one of the deadening aspects of life in Riyadh (pop. 250,000) is sheer boredom. The city boasts not a single place of entertainment; since Moslems generally do not drink, there are no bars or nightclubs. The only excitement occurs on Friday afternoons when crowds gather in the public squares to watch the flogging of convicted thieves. If the thief is a third-time offender, his right hand is amputated at the wrist...
Three people are in the room, two women and a man. The man (Morgan Sterne) is a coward who betrayed his revolutionary comrades to torture and death. One of the women (Viveca Lindfors) is a lesbian who seduced a virtuous young housewife and slowly, out of sheer unnatural viciousness, destroyed her. The other is a rich woman (Rita Gam) who drowned her baby and inspired her nice old husband to blow his brains out. Briskly they confess their sins, warily they begin to discover what manner of hell they are in. The coward longs to be saved, the lesbian prefers...
...turned to point all over the sky are extremely expensive. For large area and proportionately high sensitivity at reasonable cost, radio astronomers dig cylindrical or hemispherical holes in the ground and line them with radio-reflecting metal. These immovable reflectors cannot be steered except by electronic trickery, but their sheer size gives them enormous power. The cylindrical telescope at the University of Illinois has 3½ times the area of the Green Bank dish...
...bath, bending callipygously to dry her toes, she sells bath oil. Back turned and naked from the waist, she demonstrates on a scale how little her sweater weighs when she puts it on. A disembodied set of naked legs cut off at the pelvis can be either a wonderfully sheer pair of stockings or somebody's erotic dream walking, and a model chosen for the most beautiful navel on Photographers' Row provides a giant closeup of her specialty to demonstrate the proper distance between a sweater and a pair of slacks...
...either sing or play for the sheer pleasure of it, or he can concentrate on exploring and developing his responsiveness in musical expression. In addition, he may gain valuable experience in preparation for a profession in music, learning, for example, that violins gradually get sharp as a concert progresses, while the brasses gradually become flat, and that the players must compensate for this...