Word: sheers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...concede that one could make an equally lame list from among most years' top-sellers, lowest-common-demoninator taste being what it is. But I can't recall another time period with the sheer depth of tastelessness that typified the mid-'70s. It wasn't just the No. 1 one song that was bad, No. 100 was equally compromised. The only good music was way, way, way underground - subterranean, troglodytic, journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth stuff...
...like Mickey Mantle or Orson Welles, a man both loved and respected. And punk mattered, it changed lives like jazz did or the '60s did. It was only stupid when it wanted to be; if you couldn't hear that, you would never break on through to the sheer sensual pleasure it offered. I'm grateful I was there, that I saw the Ramones, that I heard their music...
...ever to stop to notice the art around you? Do you ever pause to consider the sheer beauty of color, shape and form of the physical world that is part of your daily life...
...which candidates largely said what they believed without micromanagement, “spin” was not an art form, presidential hopefuls could jump into a race a short few months before their party’s nominating convention and grassroots organizing—not TV commercials or sheer spending power—ruled the day. In short, it was a political world that was much less cynical, even if politicians on both sides of the aisle flamed Communist-infiltration rhetoric to their own advantage...
...absence of a fairer and more accurate test, which would take years to develop or to become standard, we would like to see colleges de-emphasize the SAT in the application process. We realize that some large institutions, because of the sheer volume of applicants, have little choice but to rely heavily on SAT scores. But universities that have the resources to evaluate each application more closely—such as Harvard, other Ivy League schools and small liberal-arts colleges—should weigh individuals’ grades, recommendations, extracurricular activities and essays far more than their SAT scores...