Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Give her those good old European paparazzi any time. The Latin American version inspires sheer terror. Flying into Rio for a "rest" with her Brazilian playboy friend, Brigitte Bardot, 29, was met by 150 howling, straining newsmen who chased her clear up to his apartment. When all efforts to break in came to naught, the pack besieged the joint for four days, running their own beauty contest among the babes on Copacabana Beach and checking the trunks of all departing cars to make sure she wasn't smuggled out. Even a writ of habeas corpus failed to lift...
Shocks & Surprises. Mother Hadley is not one for insulating young minds from un-American sights and sounds that may seem somewhat shocking. The sheer gruesomeness of a torture chamber, she feels, may inspire children with more respect for and curiosity about history's tortured. She feels much the same way about bullfights. She advises parents to explain the mythological and historical background of bullfighting to any children "capable of understanding and reason" and then take them to a major corrida. "Whether your children are horrified or think it enormously exciting, I think, in light of its past history...
...after eight years of one-man shows (and rising prices), Pollock abruptly banished color from his work. He also began weaving images again with his whiplash scatter stroke. There emerged an ascetic calligraphy that, in daring the absurdity of sheer scribble, produced a flowing script that entranced the eye with its imagism...
...suck in linebackers, then flip the ball over their heads to a waiting halfback. But the Bears were the ones who were waiting. Chicago Linebacker Larry Morris plucked the ball out of the air on his own 34-and ran to the Giant five be fore he collapsed from sheer exhaustion. Bear Quarterback Billy Wade punched across...
...read a Hitchcock script," said Hitchcock's agent in London. "Well, I'm not Cary Grant," said Connery. "If you want me, send me a script." He picks up checks (something most actors consider against union rules), he has no personal pressagent, and out of sheer disinterest, he turns down invitations that others might pay for: he was asked to help set the cornerstone of MCA's new skyscraper, but he shot a round of golf instead...