Word: sheers
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...often saved, stuffed into a box and then forgotten. In 1996 Kiron Skinner, now a professor at Carnegie Mellon, was researching a book on the end of the cold war when she stumbled on the first batch. As she dug a little deeper, more boxes appeared. Overwhelmed by the sheer volume, she called in Martin Anderson, who served as Reagan's first domestic-policy adviser, and his wife Annelise, a Reagan aide at the Office of Management and Budget, to help. First there were 1,000 letters, then 3,000, and in the end the trio sorted through more than...
More than sheer volume, “loud” signified intensity, spectacle and chaos...
...Cigarette Beach seems unsatisfying at times, it’s because the album fails to truly capture the off-the-cuff wit and sheer lunacy of the duo’s live performances. With most of the tracks simply lurching into the next, Grape-a-Don never gets the chance to fully develop his loose cannon personality. What’s more, the absurd shout-along choruses of early Grand Buffet favorites like “Candy Bars” and “You’re on Fire” have largely been replaced with tedious...
...sheer lubricious swank, Newton was hard to beat. Fashion magazines like to be chic, which means edgy but not indigestible. Almost everything Newton did was hard to swallow. He was one of the first to inject certain strange particles into the mainstream. He made pictures that proposed domination as an excellent metaphor for human affairs, or same-sex involvements as a supremely interesting annex to the general run of things. When Madonna kisses Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards, his spirit hovers...
Edwards twice turned modest gains into drive-making receptions with speed and sheer determination combining for dozens of yards after the catch, his fluid lateral movement leaving opposing safeties tackling nothing...