Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stirling's facades offer a dramatic but deferential response to the Fogg's primary location and entry...Few buildings match the Sackler for sheer spectacle and power," wrote Gary Wolf who previewed the building for Architectural Review...
...early as the 1960s, Moscow had developed an experimental "gun" designed to shoot chunks of metal at speeds high enough to destroy missiles by sheer impact. The U.S. now has similar "rail guns," but they were not developed until the 1980s...
...trouble is, Richler can't make fun of the condition because he suffers from it. He harbors so much anger, presumably owing to his own mother, or to his own miserable upbringing in Montreal, that his novel gets bogged down by sheer malice. The fictional Joshua's mother is absurd--a vain, floozy stripper--and his coarse father (adequately played by Alan Arkin, in the film's only good performance) lives a cliche. Richler's story of Jewish lust/angst was better served by Philip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint...
Mandy Patinkin is also a tragic hero in this film, striving and straining in vain to drag his role from the saccharine muck. As does Close, Patinkin makes himself likeable, playing the part of a loving, loyal husband, but the disgusting sweetness of his character, coupled with the sheer inanity of his lines, makes him unbelievable and even annoying...
...Moscow, says one intelligence source, he handled liaison between the KGB and the Central Committee of the ruling Politburo. "It's caused a real body blow to the KGB," said Patrick Leahy, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, of Yurchenko's defection. "They must be in sheer panic over there...