Word: sheers
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...point was not to make intimate contact with the Fab Four themselves - at that point, it would've been easier to line up a chat with the Pope, or even J.D. Salinger - but to enjoy the excitement, the crowds, the hysterical adolescent girls, the sheer exuberant fun that surrounded them. The Beatles certainly enjoyed it all. Ducking into limousines, waving to screeching fans across police barricades, fielding silly questions at press conferences, they mugged and clowned and gagged it up to the delight of us reporters, who quickly wore out the adjectives "cheeky" and "irreverent." (Reporter: "How many...
Harvard faces its largest problems in sheer numbers. Cornell—which consistently had four or five runners in each race—simply overwhelmed the Crimson with its deep roster...
...acting like an adult in real life too, with a brand-new Harvard degree, a deed on a house and the cover of next month's Vogue. Then again, Natalie sports a flapper-girl bob that's just like her girlish one, and when she donned a sheer gown for a recent event, her makeup artist had to point out that her nipples were showing. "We tried to put, like, Band-Aids on," Portman said, but she gave up and wore the dress anyway. So, O.K., she's not yet a woman...
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, 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, and all the inhabitants...
...Roughly $3.7 trillion of the S&P 500's $10.3 trillion market value is held by individuals in taxable accounts. These shareholders will reap tax savings of $13.6 billion this year. Some, and maybe even much, of that windfall will be reinvested in dividend-paying stocks. Meanwhile, the sheer size of the savings--it equals the total amount of child-credit checks the government issued last summer to stimulate the economy--will call attention to dividends...