Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saddens his admirers. The debate on Henry the K's legacy is just starting and promises to grow-and grow. He is, as Psychohistorian Bruce Mazlish explains, "one of those figures, like a Churchill or a De Gaulle, who bestride their eras and dominate by the sheer weight of their character. Such figures take on mythical, as well as historical attributes, even in their own time...
...spires of New York publishing and yet worry about wrinkling his necktie. Perhaps Murdoch has built his empire for the sheer fun of it. "It's a pretty heady life," he says. "There you are rubbing shoulders with Cabinet ministers, heads of big businesses, people who are involved in the arts. I love it. Who wouldn...
...startling figure involved fatal accidents: 42% of the nurses said they knew of deaths that could be attributed to doctors' mistakes; 15% noted that they had witnessed such tragedies more than once. In her hospital, one nurse reported, a general surgeon lost eight patients over eight years through sheer ineptness.She added, "A psychiatrist on staff said that he was out to destroy himself...
Perhaps the best place to begin is with the special exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts called The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation's Millenium General Assembly. It's difficult to describe this work; some call it "primitive art," others just attribute it to sheer madness and leave it at that. The Throne is a series of chairs, tables, little altars and tablets, all elaborately decorated in tin foil. It was created by James Hampton, a black, Washington D.C. janitor who apparently saved all of the tin foil he found on the job to construct...
Super Bowl. It is the Great American Time Out, a three-hour pause on a Sunday afternoon in January that is?as sheer, unadorned spectacle?an interval unique. For 70 million Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, crime disappears, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title?on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town...