Word: sheers
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...painter of note ever to rate a review in Juggs magazine. A rave, of course.) But there's another kind of boom boom that Currin also brings to mind these days. It's the steady pounding of hype. At 41, with a measure of talent and no shortage of sheer cunning, he's routinely described as the painter of the moment. The Currin retrospective has already been seen in Chicago and London, and at every stop, all the bugles of fame have been sounding...
...backpack in tow. She recounts that last year, after being hired to write for Let’s Go: India & Nepal in the summer, she “subsided on my travel backpack for the whole of May after driving all my other possessions home, just because of the sheer exhilaration of landing myself into difficult situations...
...when she was six, such a thesis offers ample opportunity for personal reflection. Indeed, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. professor of Romance Languages and Literature Doris Sommer, also Truszkowska’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship mentor, notes as much in an e-mail. “Along with her sheer intelligence, Natalia’s complex cultural background… stimulate her mental and social agility,” she writes...
...papism,” blocked appropriations in state legislatures for new public schools in the Catholic-dominated areas. The few public schools still operating often refused to allow Catholics through the doors, nervous the “papism” of students—and their sheer numbers—would reduce educational quality for the other pupils. Desperate, Catholic city councils (like Boston’s) gave whatever support they could to Jesuit private schools to allow at least some of the children to attend institutions that functioned essentially as public schools...
...often unappealing, its plotting is sometimes weak (there’s an irrelevant subplot involving a homeless woman), and its staging was often static. But at the same time, this was a fittingly creative, moving and fun rendition of a unique musical. It was worth seeing for its sheer novelty...