Word: sheerness
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...that has been droning on for years, now grown "so complicated that no man alive knows what it means." An upper-class lady hiding a dark secret. Orphaned children, greedy adults, blackmailing lawyers, a detective story, a reunion and several untimely deaths (one of them by spontaneous combustion). The sheer scope of Charles Dickens' great novel Bleak House presents a daunting task for any adapter. But the BBC version that begins next week on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre cuts brilliantly through the mists to create what may well be TV's dramatic event of the year...
...dramatic growth in museum-store sales partly reflects the sheer variety of products. These range from the sublime to the slightly ridiculous. Staple items include postcards, calendars, notecards and posters. Beyond that, the potpourri is far less predictable. At the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut one can buy a wooden handcrafted model of a ship ($10,000). Shoppers at Boston's Museum of Science store can take home a tiny piece of the moon, complete with a lunar map locating the crater from which the rock was taken. The single best-selling item in the Smithsonian stores...
...detailed explanation of Lehman's management structure, and it is overburdened with irrelevant details such as whose dog was vomiting while key negotiations were under way. Still, the book's eventual energy is propulsive, and even at its weakest moments, Auletta's tale is buoyed along by the sheer venom of its gossip...
There they were again, trying by eye contact and sheer force of will to make progress where their subordinates had come up short. There they were again, putting two very human faces on the most dangerous rivalry in history, personalizing the complex issues involved. It was their second meeting in less than a year, and it was intended to provide what the Soviet leader called an "impulse" for future meetings in Washington and Moscow. Though they clashed in Reykjavik over Star Wars, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan still might end up encountering each other more frequently than Richard Nixon...
...tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of specific smells and kept them so clearly, so randomly, at his disposal, that he could not only recall them when he smelled them again, but could also actually smell them simply upon recollection. And what was more, he even knew how by sheer imagination to arrange new combinations of them, to the point where he created odors that did not exist in the real world." This talent has at least one major flaw: "The creative activity of Grenouille the wunderkind took place only inside him and could be perceived by no one other...