Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great detail, the show is a dramatic reminder of how vital a contribution Dada and surrealism made to the modernist imagination. No painting or poetry had been so resolutely and bitterly antiauthoritarian. Dada was the child of trauma; the first World War, that cultural chasm, had revealed - in the sheer incapacity of words to convey its degree of lethal absurdity - the extent to which language itself was owned by the officer classes of Europe...
...very artless artist can sometimes achieve freshness simply by not realizing that his material is stale. A very strong-minded one can, on a good day, banish cliches from an overused subject by sheer force of will. Ridley Scott, an English television director who had not done a full-length movie before The Duellists, clearly is strong-minded, and his film does not contain a stale moment...
...half ended with the hoopsters out in front, 39-30, as the combination of metronome passing with sheer hustle proved too much for the beleaguered Bruins. Last weekend, Brown stunned Columbia, 64-62. At the time the Lions were sharing first place in the Ivies with still-undefeated Penn...
There's been a lot of enthusiastic talk lately about Beanpots and squash national championships, but for sheer excitement and historical significance these will almost assuredly take back seats to the events taking place at the new pool complex this afternoon...
...pills. Yet for many years some liberal opponents on Capitol Hill loathed him as much as any man in Washington. Defensive and insecure, driven and intense, he often said that the Senate was made up of "workhorses and show horses," a distinction clearly made in order of preference. Through sheer will and work, Byrd overcame poverty as well as charges that he was a racist and the Senate's Uriah Heep, the classic hypocrite in Dickens' David Copperfield. Now, after 25 years in Congress, Byrd is still not beloved by his colleagues, but he has their respect...